About VAM - Overview

About VAM

Analytical measurement is of major economic significance and essential to ensuring quality of life with over �7 billion spent annually on chemical analysis in the UK. However, evidence suggests that many analytical measurements are not fit for purpose and that poor quality data represent a major cost and risk to business and society.

The VAM Programme

The VAM Programme helps organisations in the UK to carry out analytical measurements competently and accurately. The Programme enables the UK to demonstrate the comparability of analytical measurements with those of its trading partners and provides working laboratories with the 'tools' needed to implement best practice and demonstrate the reliability and integrity of their results.

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The VAM Principles

The six VAM principles provide a framework to enable organisations to deliver reliable results first time, every time, and achieve bottom line improvements through increased operational efficiency and reduction in risk. Laboratories that adopt VAM provide customers and users of data with increased confidence that results of analytical measurements are valid and fit for purpose.

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