QUALITY AND PRECISION
“Without a defined quality assurance programme all analytical results must be suspect.”
(Harnly and Wolf, 1984)
The Neotron quality assurance program is an integrated system developed at different levels of the organization, all phases of the analysis process are covered by one or more levels of quality control.
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DIFFERENT LEVELS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME
Level 1
Laboratory “horizontal” quality control program (no method-specific)
Level 2
Analytical method validation / accreditation
Level 3
Routine activity internal quality control
Level 4
Inter-laboratory control (proficiency test)
The analytic process
The quality assurance program covers each single analytical activity step with one or more levels.

1 Sample arrival

2 Sample preparation

3 Extraction / Purification

4 Detection
