Abstract
There are many different means of demonstrating the quality of performance of an analytical laboratory. Proficiency testing (PT) is just one! As in other analytical fields, interlaboratory comparisons play an important role in the chemical industry. Collaborative trials or method performance studies do have a long tradition in this field. Sometimes they were designed as laboratory performance studies with the clear aim of making analytical results comparable, e.g. petrol, coal, gas, noble metals analyses – not to mention the biggest PT scheme run on a daily world-wide basis – trade itself. All this is an ongoing process, which started long before the idea of assessing and accrediting the performance of analytical laboratories was born. However, when striving for accreditation in 1996, the analytical production laboratories of the Chemicals Business Unit of the Bayer AG in Germany implemented another facet of PT schemes. In-house-PT schemes are performed regularly and turned out to be useful in evaluating, monitoring, and thus improving, the quality of routine analytical work.
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Received: 5 December 2000 Accepted: 15 January 2001
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Schmidt, R. Experience with in-house PT-schemes in the chemical industry. Accred Qual Assur 6, 178–180 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007690100320
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