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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