Voting Draft Standards for Laboratory Quality Systems Available for Review
Date Posted: 12-29-2011
The TNI Quality Systems Committee has voted to approve 6 Voting Draft Standards. Copies of these standards can be found below. The committee has also prepared a summary of all the proposed changes, see this document (PDF).
In accordance with SOP 2-100, this standard will be open to a membership vote beginning on January 12, 2012. This vote will be open for 30 days, concluding on February 11, 2012. Any votes cast on or before January 30, 2012 will be discussed publically at the Quality Systems committee meeting in Sarasota, FL on January 31, 2012. Any votes received after January 30 will be discussed publicly at the Quality Systems committee meeting during the Forum on Laboratory Accreditation in Washington DC in August 2012.
TNI urges all members to vote on this standard before January 30.
Environmental Laboratory Sector
Volume 1: Management and Technical Requirements for Laboratories Performing Environmental Analysis
Module 2 - Quality Systems General Requirements
Module 3 - Quality Systems for Asbestos Testing
Module 4 - Quality Systems for Chemical Testing
Module 5 - Quality Systems for Microbiological Testing
Module 6 - Quality Systems for Radiochemical Testing
Module 7 - Quality Systems for Toxicity Testing
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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).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
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.