Bulletin of the IDF N° 395/2005 - Method Standardization In The Third Millennium

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Proceedings of symposium held in IDF/ISO/AOAC International Analytical Week, Parma (Italy), 21 April 2004

Demands by users of methods of analysis, and by users of the results, for precision and reliability are greater year by year. The analytical community is constantly considering how to improve performance and how to communicate the improvements. The papers at this symposium presented the latest thinking in the organizations responsible for standardizing methods, alternatives to standard methods, routine methods for official purposes, analytical methods in product quality management and process risk analysis, harmonization of precision in microbiological methods, taking advantage of advances in analytical methodology.

Keywords: analysis of dairy products, antibiotics testing, autocontrol, criteria approach, interlaboratory studies, laboratory practice, official control, quality management, reliability of analytical results, risk analysis, routine methods, somatic cell count, standardization of methods, statistics of analytical results