The aim of this guide is to provide laboratories with guidance on best practice for the analytical operations they carry out.
The guidance covers both qualitative and quantitative analysis carried out on a routine or non-routine basis. It is intended to help those implementing quality assurance in laboratories. For those working towards accreditation, certification, or other compliance with particular quality requirements, it will help explain what these requirements mean.
The guidance will also be useful to those involved in the quality assessment of analytical laboratories against those quality requirements.
Cross-references to ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 9000 and OECD Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) requirements are provided.
This document has been developed from the previous CITAC Guide 1 (which in turn was based on the EURACHEM/WELAC Guide), and updated to take account of new material and developments, particularly the new requirements of the standard, ISO/IEC 17025.
This guide is available in PDF format. It can be downloaded free of charge from the Eurachem web site.