Announcement of Working Draft Standards for NELAP Proficiency Testing
Date Posted: 7-7-2012
In accordance with the TNI Procedures Governing Standards Development, the following Working Draft Standards will be discussed publicly at the Environmental Measurement Symposium in Washington, D.C., August 6-10, 2012. Interested parties may also submit written comments to the Laboratory Proficiency Testing Committee until August 6, 2012. Written comments should be directed to the Chair, Mitzi Miller, at [email protected].
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TNI NELAP Working Draft Standards
Volume 1, Management and Technical Requirements for Laboratories Performing Environmental Analysis:
Module 1: Proficiency Testing
Volume 2, General Requirements for Accreditation Bodies Accrediting Environmental Laboratories:
Module 2: Proficiency Testing

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.