Scientific Workshop Eurachem 2023

Workshop: Ensuring reliable and accurate results of analytical processes

The analytical process spans from sampling over sample preparation to the actual measurement process. All these steps contribute to the measurement uncertainty of the result. Reliable and accurate results are subsequently interpreted and further used. Leading international and Swiss experts will share their current practices, latest developments and challenges across the analytical process.

Programme day 1 - 22 May 2023

09:00-09:15

Welcome addresses
Philippe Richard, Director METAS, Isabelle Vercruysse, Euchem Chair

09:15-11:30 Session 1 – Method validation
chaired by Lorens P. Sibbesen, Lab Quality International
  ICH Q2(R2) & Q14 Guidelines and impact on validation in OMCL Laboratories (ISO/IEC 17025:2017)
Massimiliano Conti, Swissmedic
  Correct choice and application of certified reference materials in method validation in food analysis
Gisela Umbricht, METAS
  Non-Target Methods: Challenges and Perspectives
Marios Kostakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  BCR sequential extraction procedure and its application to mine tailings and fly ashes
Lyudmila Angelova University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Bulgaria
  Panel discussion
11:30-12:30 Poster Session or guided laboratory tour
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:30 Session 2 – Equipment and Software validation
chaired by Christoph Jansen, Mettler Toledo Analytical
  Lifecycle approaches for establishing ‘fitness for use’ of analytical instruments and systems in order to support and maintain ‘fitness for purpose’ of analytical procedures
Christopher Burgess, visiting professor SIPBS
 

Digital measurement and control technology in the analytical sciences and its quality assurance"
Ernst Halder, Eurachem-CH

  Ion mobility as additional Metrological Value – the Invaluable Benefit of another Dimension in Hybrid Mass Spectrometry
Jens Jacobson, WatersTM
  Need for the validation of on-site test kits, portable devices and continuous measuring devices for water quality monitoring
Nathalie Guigues, LNE
  Panel discussion
15:30-16:00 Coffee break and networking
16:00-17:00 Poster session or guided laboratory tour
after 17:00 Evening programme

Programme day 2 - 23 May 2023

09:00-09:15 Welcome at METAS : 2nd day
Hanspeter Andres , Vice Director METAS
09:15-11:30 Session 3 – Internal and external quality controls
chaired by Hanspeter Andres, METAS
  Laboratory medicine – mandatory quality controls are self-evident
Katharina Rentsch, University Hospital Basel
  The Proficiency Testing System of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Andreas Schorer, Laboratory Spiez
  Ensuring Validity of Examination Results: What is new in the new ISO 15189
Kyriacos C. Tsimillis, Pancyprian Union of Chemists
  Comparison of standardized and novel methods for oil spill source identification in real spill scenarios reproduced in proficiency tests
Ana Catarina Rocha, Instituto Hidrográfico, Lisbon
  Panel discussion
11:30-12:15 Poster Session or guided laboratory tour
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:30 Session 4 – Uncertainty and Traceability of results
chaired by Evaldas Naujalis, FTMC
  Measurement uncertainty from sampling and its roll in validation of measurement procedures
Mike Ramsey, Prof. em. University of Sussex
  The Importance of Traceability or how to Achieve Comparability of Chemical Measurements
Markus Obkircher, Merck Group
  "Uncertainty evaluation based on practical examples"
Stephen Ellison, LGC group
  The impact of input data on the evaluation of the measurement uncertainty: A case study
Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, University of Lisbon
  Panel discussion
15:30-16:00 Coffee break and networking
16:00 End of workshop

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Information

Meeting Venue

Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Lindenweg 50, 3003 Wabern adjacent to Bern.

Date/time

Monday – Tuesday, 22.- 23. May 2023
09:00 – 16:00, reception and coffee from 08:30

Audience

The workshop will be relevant to anyone involved in analytical processes, for example quality laboratory technicians and managers; measurement instrument manufacturers, representatives ofaccreditation authorities, metrology institutes and standardisation bodies; technical assessors aswell as customers of laboratory services.

Language

The working language of the workshop will be English.

Registration

Registration closed

The registration is now closed. Unfortunately it is no longer possible to register for the workshop.

The workshop is planned as an on-site event. The registration fee is 300 CHF and includes cateringon-site as well as the evening programme. The rates do not include VAT. This will be charged additionally.

Cancellations made after invoicing will be charged a fee of CHF 100 per person for administrativeexpenses. Cancellations must reach us in writing by 10th May 2023 at the latest; after this deadlinethe full participation fee will be charged.

Posters presentation

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List of posters

Sampling in combination with process knowledge as critical factors for the reliability and accuracy of laboratory testing
Aristos Loucaides

Ensuring quality of the analytical process in a research laboratory
Andriana Surleva

Assessment of trends and correlations of parameters of a vast oceanic area robust to data uncertainty
Carlos Borges

Equipment Qualification
Ernst Halder

Pyramid of Quality
Ernst Halder

Measurement uncertainty arising from sampling and analytical steps of dissolution test
Felipe R. Lourenço

Total combined global risk assessment applied to pharmaceutical equivalence of medicines
Felipe R. Lourenço

Measurement uncertainty evaluation of microbial enumeration test for medicines
Felipe R. Lourenço

Multivariate guard-bands applied on multiparameter evaluations of medicines
Felipe R. Lourenço

Analytics for phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge and mineral fertilizers
Lena Märki

Quality Characteristics of Performance of the Determination of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The case study of Athens
Marios Kostakis

European Metrology Network for Pollution Monitoring POLMO
Nathalie Guigues

European Metrology Network for Safe and Sustainable Food
Silvia Mallia

Validation of a method for acid treatment and subsequent determination by ICP-OES of heavy metals in soils and industrial tailings
Temenuzhka Radoykova

Objective assessment of the evolution of microplastic contamination in sediments from a vast coastal area
Vanessa Morgado

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