标准物质在商检分析实验室中的应用

介绍了标准物质在商检分析实验室的质量管理和实验室认可工作中的应用。     

标准物质的选择及使用

介绍标准物质在哈尔滨气化厂的使用情况,解决了标准物质出现的质量问题。     

标准物质在检测实验室质量控制中的应用

【】 本文介绍了检测中使用标准物质进行质量控制的重要意义,分别在盲样测试、期间核查和质量控制图应用方面提出了使用标准物质进行质量控制的三种方法,并通过在实验室获得的检测数据对上述应用方法作了实例说明,对检测实验室应用标准物质进行质量控制工作具有指导意义。     

标准物质讲座（第二讲）我国标准物质的管理及其发展

阐述了我国标准物质的分类、分级、编号及其管理。描述了标准物质的溯淅体系及定值的组织系统,介绍了国际标准物质信息库。     

玻璃成分分析标准物质的研究及应用

玻璃标准物质是用于比较的基准物质,在玻璃的生产和质量控制中是保证数值有效可靠的基础.分析了国内外玻璃标准物质的研究进展情况,论述了玻璃标准物质的作用,同时指出了现阶段玻璃标准物质研究中存在的问题,并指出了其未来的发展方向.     

地质分析中标准物质的选用及注意事项

对地质分析时使用标准物质的一般原则、容易忽略的问题、贵金属标准物质的选择、过期标准物质的选择、疑难样品“标准物质室”的建立、仪器期间核查标准物质的选择进行了论述。     

乙醇气体标准物质包装容器的选择及分析条件的优化

采用不同分装方法考察了低含量乙醇气体在国内现有气瓶中的吸附情况,通过对比选择出最适合的乙醇气体的气瓶,然后使用高浓度乙醇气体对其进行预饱和,最后再次通过分装实验来验证其吸附情况.此外,通过选择不同的色谱柱、柱温、柱流速和分流比等条件,对乙醇分析的色谱条件进行了优化.     

特种陶瓷的应用及其成分分析标准物质

陶瓷标准物质主要用于陶瓷材料中主要、次要和微量成分的测定,以保证分析结果的准确性。介绍了特种陶瓷的种类及其在国防建设中的重要作用,详述了国内外陶瓷标准物质的研究及其组分测定的现状,同时指出了现阶段存在的问题及研制特种陶瓷标准物质的必要性。     

标准物质讲座(第八讲)有证标准物质的使用

介绍使用有证标准物质的一般原则和要求.     

正确使用标准物质/标准样品

介绍了标准物质与标准样品、有证与非有证标准物质/标准样品的区别与联系,国內外有证标准物质/标准样品的判断依据,标准物质/标准样品及其证书的科学使用。对正确理解和使用标准物质/标准样品提出了一些建议。     

Biological and environmental reference materials in neutron activation analysis work

Summary The great usefulness of reference materials, especially ones of certified elemental composition, is discussed with particular attention devoted to their use in instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) work. Their use, including both certified and uncertified values, in calculations made by the INAA Advance Prediction Computer Program (APCP) is discussed. The main features of the APCP are described, and mention is made of the large number of reference materials run on the APCP (including the new personal computer version of the program), with NBS Oyster Tissue SRM-1566 used as the principal example.     

Certified reference materials for the quality control of measurements in environmental monitoring

The monitoring and protection of the environment are based on measurement campaigns which cover long periods of time and large geographical areas. Only accurate analytical results allow valid conclusions to be drawn about a situation and its evolution. The use of certified reference materials (CRMS) permits verification of the accuracy of the measurements. The importance of accuracy and the way CRMs may be used are presented in this review. The production and properties required of a good CRM are discussed. An overview of the types of CRMs in the non-nuclear field, available for the monitoring of the environment, is also given.     

Biological and environmental reference materials in CENAM

Since 1994, when the NIST/NOAA Quality Assurance Program in Chemical Measurements was discussed in Queretaro, CENAM, the National Measurement Institute (NMI) of Mexico, has become involved in the development of reference materials. In the field of biological and environmental reference materials, in particular, the NORAMET collaboration program with NIST and NRC, and the North-American Environmental Cooperation signed among three free-trade treaty organizations, have greatly helped the development of the materials metrology program in the newly established CENAM. This paper describes some particularly significant efforts of CENAM in the development of biological and environmental reference materials, on the basis of inter-comparison studies organized with local and governmental environmental agencies of Mexico. In the field of water pollution CENAM has developed a practical proficiency testing (PT) scheme for field laboratories, as a part of registration by local government in the metropolitan area, according to the Mexican Ecological Regulation. The results from these eight PTs in the last 5 years have demonstrated that this scheme has helped ensure the reliability of analytical capability of more than 50 field laboratories in three states, Mexico, D.F., and the States of Mexico and Queretaro. Similar experience has been obtained for more than 70 service units of stack emission measurements in the three states in 1998 and 1999, as a result of the design of a PT scheme for reference gas mixtures. This PT scheme has been accomplished successfully by 30 analytical laboratories who provide monitoring services and perform research on toxic substances (Hg, methylmercury, PCB, etc.) in Mexico. To support these activities, reference samples have been produced through the NIST SRMs, and efforts have been made to increase CENAM's capability in the preparation of primary reference materials in spectrometric solutions and gas mixtures. Collaboration among NMIs has also successfully overcome the inability of CENAM to prepare biological tissue for mercury assessment and marine sediments for analysis of trace metals. The importance of international collaboration is stressed not only in the NORAMET region but also in the SIM, to provide help for each other and achieve mutual recognition among member countries of the region.     

Some considerations regarding reference materials and their role in environmental monitoring. Plenary lecture.

After a brief introduction indicating the principal function of reference materials (RMs) in ensuring that the analytical measurement programme is performing reliably, the availability, different types and sources of information on RMs are described. Next, the correspondence of available RMs to present sample demands is discussed, particularly with regard to the adequacy of matrices and analytes, the availability of RMs for 'difficult' trace elements, and the preparation and certification of speciation RMs. The role of RMs in quality control is indicated, and their usage and certain problems which can thereby arise, including total dissolution, homogeneity and their representativeness in relation to samples, are discussed. The application of truly representative RMs in low-level trace element work, as a means of quality control of sampling and storage procedures, is mentioned. Strategies open to the analyst in the total absence of certified RMs are presented, and the importance of publication of independent results by alternative methods for such materials, as a means of establishing consensus values, is stressed. In the situation where results for a particular analyte obtained by different groups for the same (but not identical) biomedical or environmental system differ markedly, a progressive multi-stage exchange scheme is proposed, which is designed to reveal whether the differences arise from analytical factors, sampling effects or real system differences.     

Production and certification of environmental reference materials in Romania

Preparation techniques for single-element and multielement standard solutions, with special emphasis on the potential progress in this field are presented. A short review of locally available reference materials is given. Some aspects of the experience accumulated in Romania regarding the various certification approaches of reference materials are presented and the main characteristics of these certified reference materials are listed. Received: 23 May 1997 / Revised: 15 August 1997 / Accepted: 15 August 1997     

The preparation of biological and environmental reference materials

The facilities of the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements for the preparation of biological and environmental reference materials are discussed under the aspect of satisfying important parameters for the preparation of candidate reference materials. The choice of transformation methods and their possible influences on quality and long-term conservation, the need for automation as well as the importance of quality control are particularly emphasized.     

The preparation of a cabbage reference material for environmental monitoring and food analysis

 Cabbage is frequently used in environmental monitoring and food control, and, hence, cabbage reference materials (RMs) are required for ensuring quality assurance. A cabbage RM was prepared in view of certification of specific elements from the "black list" of high toxicological interest and nutritive importance. All tasks of the RM production (production of the plant material, cutting and freeze-drying, determination of the residual water content, preparation of the RM, homogeneity testing, stability testing, certification measurements) are described in detail. Received: 12 November 1999 / Accepted: 29 January 2000     

Review of neutron activation analysis in the standardization and study of reference materials, including its application to radionuclide reference materials

Summary Neutron activation analysis (NAA) plays a very important role in the certification of reference materials (RMs) and their characterization, including homogeneity testing. The features of the method are briefly reviewed, particularly aspects relating to its completely independent nuclear basis, its virtual freedom from blank problems, and its capacity for self-verification. This last aspect, arising from the essentially isotopic character of NAA, can be exploited by using different nuclear reactions and induced nuclides, and the possibility of employing two modes, one instrumental (nondestructive), the other radiochemical (destructive). This enables the derivation of essentially independent analytical information and the unique capacity of NAA for self-validation. The application of NAA to quantify natural or man-made radionuclides such as uranium, thorium, ²³⁷Np, ¹²⁹I and ²³⁰Th is discussed, including its advantages over conventional radiometric methods, and its usefulness in providing independent data for nuclides where other confirmatory analyses are impossible, or are only recently becoming available through newer atom counting techniques. Certain additional, prospective uses of NAA in the study of RMs and potential RMs are mentioned, including transmutation reactions, creation of endogenously radiolabelled matrices for production and study of RMs (such as dissolution and leaching tests, use as incorporated radiotracers for chemical recovery correction), and the possibility of molecular activation analysis for speciation.     

Biological and environmental reference materials: Update 1996

The present column lists additional biological and environmental reference samples. Organs, tissues, body fluids, plant materials, foods, fuels, ashes, dusts, particulate matter, gas mixtures, oils, soils, sediments, sludges and waters have been considered. Three tables are included that provide an easy-to-use survey. The following information is covered: the name of the material, the sample code, the producer, the reference to certification, the names and addresses of the suppliers from whom the reference material may be obtained, and specific remarks.     

Certified reference materials of soils and sewage sludges for the quality control of trace element environmental monitoring

For the wide variety of soil/sludge matrices encountered in analytical practice, a range of CRMs should be available to verify the analytical quality control of any determination carried out, using samples which should be as similar as possible to real soil and sludge samples so that the method's performance may be tested under real analytical conditions. This paper presents basic requirements for the preparation of soil and sludge CRMs for the quality control of trace element determinations (total and extractable contents, following strict extraction protocols), and gives recent examples of new certifications successfully concluded by the SM&T programme of the European Commission.