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: V1M2, Section 5.5.13.1.e.ii
REQUEST:
This section requires that disposable or single-use volumetric equipment shall be verified once per lot, prior to or in conjunction with first use.
Is it acceptable to perform this verification at one location of a network laboratory, and share that verification documentation among its laboratories, providing the required documentation of verification to any network laboratory that uses the lot in question?
TNI FINAL RESPONSE:
No, each accredited laboratory shall verify disposable or single-use volumetric devices once per lot, prior to or in conjunction with its first use.