develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.Standard Interpretation
Standard: 2016
Section: V1M4, Section 1.7.1.1
REQUEST:
The Standard states that all initial calibrations must be verified by a second source. If a method requires a surrogate or internal standard, do the surrogates and/or internal standards also need to be verified by a second source?
TNI FINAL RESPONSE:
No, V1M4 1.7.1.1. does not apply to internal standards or surrogates. Section 1.7.1.1 addresses the calibration of analytes. An analyte is defined in V1M2 as "A substance, organism, physical parameter, property, or chemical constituent(s) for which an environmental sample is being analyzed." Internal standards and surrogates do not meet the definition of an analyte.