This is a set of projects that aims to provide UK analytical laboratories with the ‘total analytical package’ for key applications relevant to trade, health, consumer and environmental protection. The ‘total analytical package’ provides analysts with fully validated methods, appropriate reference materials and traceable reference values.

Working directly with UK laboratories, these projects will provide the measurment tools required for key applications in a wide range of industrial sectors. The main activities involve the:-

• certification of calibration standards and pure materials;
• production and certification of CRMs, RMs and QC materials;
• Pilot UK and international comparisons providing certification data for the CRMs and RMs;
• Publication of specific validated analytical methods;
• Provision of reference values for related PT schemes;
• Evaluation of new measurement technologies for characterising complex systems.

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