The Eurachem Education and Training Working Group invites you to participate in an international workshop on internal quality control to be held in Berlin on Wednesday 10 to Thursday 11 October 2012. The event will be hosted by the German member of Eurachem, EUROLAB Germany. The workshop will cover analytical results from a range of sectors and disciplines including chemical analysis, testing, laboratory medicine and microbiology. The main focus will be on internal quality control performed in the laboratory for the continuous monitoring of operations and results of measurements, in order to decide whether results are reliable enough to be released.

The workshop will include invited lectures, short communications, posters and break-out sessions.

A training course on internal quality control will be held at the same venue the day before the workshop, Tuesday 9 October.

WORKSHOP LANGUAGE English

WORKSHOP CONTENTThe workshop will cover all aspects of internal Quality Control (QC) performed in the laboratory with a mixture of general presentations and case studies illustrating how QC is implemented in different sectors. Topics to be covered include:

• Strategies for internal QC• Materials for quality control• Different types of control charts• Setting and reviewing limits for control charts• Planning of effective internal QC• Interpreting and reviewing control charts• Strategies for following-up QC failures• Internal QC for non-routine analysis• Internal QC for R&D laboratories• Internal QC for qualitative measurements

TRAINING COURSEThe training course will be led by Bertil Magnusson and Vicki Barwick. The course will provide an introduction to the principles of internal quality control, setting-up control charts, establishing control limits, and daily and long-term evaluation of internal QC results.

WORKSHOP WEBSITEwww.eurachem2012.bam.de

EURACHEM WORKSHOP ON KEY CHALLENGES IN INTERNAL QUALITY CONTROL

at BAM, Berlin 10-11 October 2012

Programme

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PROGRAMME Tuesday 09 October

09:00 – 16:30 Course on Internal Quality Control – Separate registration18:00 Welcome reception

Workshop Day 1 – Wednesday 10 October 2012

08:00 Registration

09:00 Opening of the workshop Bertil Magnusson, SP Swedish Technical Research Institute, Sweden

09:15 Internal quality control in chemical analysis—the big picture Michael Thompson, UK

09:50 Internal QC in a production laboratory - large series of automated analyses Ulla Lund, Eurofi ns, Denmark

10:25 The point of view of assessors when reviewing IQC activities Ursula Ellerbeck, DAkkS, Department for Analytical Chemistry, Germany

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Setting control limits based on demand on measurement quality Bertil Magnusson, SP Swedish Technical Research Institute, Sweden

11:35 IQC of DNA analysis Ricky Ansell, Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science, Linköping, Sweden

11:55 IQC in microbiological testing Christina Oscroft, Campden-BRI, UK

12:15 Lunch

13:15 Poster session14:00 Breakout sessions

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 Summary of breakout sessions17:15 End of day 1

19:00 Workshop dinner

Workshop Day 2 – Thursday 11 October 2012

09:00 Using split sample technique for quality control in a clinical laboratory Elvar Theodorsson, Linköping University Hospital, Sweden

09:35 Internal QC for qualitative tests - Identifi cation of the active substance in tear gas weapons Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal

10:10 Challenges and solutions for implementing IQC measures in ad-hoc or non-routine analysis in universities Irene Mueller-Harvey, University of Reading, UK

10:45 Coffee break11:15 Short communication 511:35 Short communication 6

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Poster session13:45 Breakout sessions

15:15 Coffee break

15:45 Summary of breakout sessions16:45 Closing of the workshop Vicki Barwick, LGC, UK

17:00 End of workshop

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEEVicki Barwick LGC, UK (Chair of Eurachem Education and Training WG)Bertil Magnusson SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, SwedenRicardo Bettencourt da Silva University of Lisbon, Portugal Martina Hedrich BAM, GermanyMichael Koch ISWA, University of Stuttgart, Germany Nineta Majcen EuCheMS, Slovenia David Milde Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic Marina Patriarca Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy Elvar Theodorsson University Hospital of Linköping, SwedenEugenia Eftimie Totu University Polytechnica of Bucarest, Romania

ORGANIZING COMMITTEEBertil Magnusson Chair of the workshop task group Manfred Golze EUROLAB Germany Roswitha Nüsser EUROLAB GermanyMartina Hedrich BAM

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTSRoswitha NüsserEUROLAB-DeutschlandPhone +49 30 8104 3703Mail eurolab-d@bam.de

VENUE Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung) Unter den Eichen 87 12205 Berlin www.bam.de

CONTRIBUTIONSThe workshop provides an opportunity for communication. Authors are invited to submit, following the instructions at the website, an abstract in English for a poster, summarizing the work to be presented. Acceptance of abstracts will be subject to approval by the Scientifi c Committee.

Submission of abstracts 15 May 2012 Notifi cation of accepted abstracts 15 June 2012

REGISTRATIONThe registration fee includes a book of abstracts, welcome reception, lunches, refreshments and a workshop dinner.

Workshop fee 440 EURO Early registration before 15 July 2012 380 EURO Accompanying person 100 EURO Training course 9 October 2012 200 EURO (Number of participants will be limited)

Registration only via: www.eurachem2012.bam.de