QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY Flashcards
is Defined as the degree to which a set
of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements.
Quality
describes the overall measures that a
laboratory uses to ensure the quality of its operations.
Quality Assurance
QA includes
A quality systems
Suitable laboratory environment
Educated, Trained and skilled staff
Equipment suitably maintained and calibrated
Documented and validated methods.
Traceability and measurement uncertainty
Proficiency testing
Requirements for reagents, standards, reference
materials
Three of the most important components of laboratory
QA are:
QC
method validation
equipment maintenance
is an integrated system of management and
technical activities within an organization that ensures
overall activities meet the defined standard or quality
QA
The QA program is defined in a documented
laboratory quality system which consists of:
- QA Manual
- QC processes
- written management and technical
procedures - work instructions
- records
to ensure quality of
analytical data produced by the laboratory
and to demonstrate the competence of
the lab
QC processes
Contains the quality policies and
objectives
QA Manual
The most widely recognized and used QA
protocols and standards in chemical testing:
ISO/ IEC 17025:2005 (International
organization for standardization/ International
Electrotechnical Commission)
ISO 9001:2000
OECD Principles of Good Lab Practice
(organization for economic cooperation and
development)
Standard which addresses the technical
competence of laboratories to carry out
specific tests and calibrations and is used by
lab accreditation bodies worldwide
ISO/ IEC 17025:2005 (International
organization for standardization/ International
Electrotechnical Commission)
The standards which relates primarily to
quality management, for facilities carrying out
production, or providing services, including
chemical analysis
ISO 9001:2000
International standard that contains all the
requirements that testing and calibration
laboratories have to meet if they wish to
operate a quality system
ISO/ IEC 17025:2005 (International
organization for standardization/ International
Electrotechnical Commission)
Guidelines concerned with the organizational
processes and conditions under which
laboratory studies related to certain regulatory
work are carried out
OECD Principles of Good Lab Practice
ISO/ IEC 17025 : 2005 MANAGEMENT
Requirements:
- Organization
- Management system
- Document control
- review of requests, tenders and contracts
- Sub-contracting of tests and calibrations
- Purchasing services and supplies
- Service to the customer
- Complaints
- Control of non-conforming tests
- Improvement
- Corrective action
- Preventive Action
- Control of Records
- Internal audits
- Managements reviews
ISO/ IEC 17025 : 2005 TECHNICAL
Requirements:
- General
2. Personnel
3. Accommodation and environmental
condition
4. Test and calibration method validation
5. Equipment
6. Measurement traceability
7. Sampling
8. Handling of test and calibration items
9. Assuring the quality of test and calibration
results
10. Reporting of results
set of practice in the
chemical laboratory that controls the
laboratory activities and conditions that affect
the accuracy of analytical data
GLP ( limited sense)
set of
requirements covering the organization of test
facilities and conditions to ensure the
generation of high quality and reliable test data
for specific objectives
GLP principles ( expanded sense)
Component of GLP
QA Program
Laboratory Conditions
Test samples
Test measurements
Record management
Component of GLP that ensures consistent quality of data
QA Program
To preserve the identity and integrity of the
samples
Test samples
To ensure that an acceptable test method
will produce the expected performance
Test measurements
To ensure that laboratory conditions are
optimized to obtain the desired
performance of the test method
Laboratory Conditions
To enable retrieval of undistorted
information whenever required
Record management
GLP includes:
- implementing standard operating
procedures - Proper maintenance and calibration of
equipment - Correct practices of laboratory personnel in
performing analytical work - Efficient management of laboratory records
Ensures that the defined characteristics of
the method as required are met. The defined method
characteristics are also known as data quality objectives (DQOs)
Method of QA
are critical goals for accuracy, precision, sensitivity,
and selectivity of analytical data to be satisfied so as to
achieved analysis goals.
data quality objectives (DQOs)