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.Notice of Proposed Standards Activity
Date Posted: 6-7-2017
The NELAC Institute (TNI) Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Expert Committee seeks to modify Volume 1 Module 7 (Quality Systems for Toxicity Testing) of the TNI Environmental Laboratory Sector 2016 standard. The current Module 7 is unchanged from the 2009 Standard. The module had been revised in 2012, but the newly formed WET Committee proposed to postpone the adoption of the 2012 revision, because the 2009 version of Module 7 better met the criteria and requirements of WET testing. Furthermore, the Committee wanted time to review the WET standard (Module 7) to make any appropriate modification from a WET perspective.
Pursuant to Section 5.2.1 of SOP 2-100 v2 (available on the TNI website) input is solicited from stakeholders and stakeholder groups who may subsequently adopt this standard as accreditation bodies, may be accredited to the standard, or may use data from accredited testing laboratories. Those who are interested in participating and providing input into this standards development process are invited to contact, within 30 days, the WET Expert Committee Chair, Dr. Rami Naddy, at 970-416-0916 or through e-mail [email protected]. The WET Expert Committee will then arrange to meet with interested stakeholders by webinar.