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.Voting Reopened for Proficiency Testing Volumes 1 and 2
Date Posted: 9-16-2014
The NELAC Institute Proficiency Testing (PT) Expert Committee held a voting session for two TNI Voting Draft Standards (EL-V1M1 and EL-V2M2) this year, with the close of voting on June 26, 2014. This voting was incomplete, with several PT Expert Committee members not registering their votes. Accordingly, the TNI Board of Directors has decided to re-open the voting to all TNI members. All ballots must be submitted by 11:59pm EDT on October 15, 2014 in order for comments to be considered by the TNI Proficiency Testing Expert Committee. Any negative votes without comment will not be considered.
NOTE: All votes previously cast on this standard remain valid, and any member who voted on the standards by June 26, 2014 is not required to vote again.
In order to vote, you must log in to the Members Only area of the website and then click on PT Voting Draft Standards (VDS) Ballot.
Votes cast on or before 11:59pm EDT on October 15, 2014 (closing date) will be discussed publicly by webinar
If you have any questions about this process, please contact Jerry Parr at [email protected] or 817-598-1624.