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.Request for Comments on the Draft Standard V1M2 Management and Testing Requirements for Laboratories Performing Environmental Analysis; Quality Management System Requirements
Date Posted: 5-26-2026
The TNI Quality Management Systems Expert Committee is providing for your review and comment the following documents:
- A Draft Standard for EL-V1M2 (click here to view PDF) that has been modified consistent with the Committee's Notice of Intent to Modify (NOI) this Standard.
- A Word file containing a Summary of Proposed Changes with Justification for those changes (click here to view Word Document). The last column in this table must be used to submit comments to the Committee. Comments made that are outside of listed changes can be added to the bottom of the table referencing the section similarly to the format in the table. When comments are submitted, the commenter may delete the rows where there are no comments.
The comment period is open for ninety days (i.e., until 08-24-2026), in accordance with the Consensus Standards Development SOP 2-100 [link to SOP]. Please send your comments and proposed revised text to both Debbie Bond ([email protected]) and Ilona Taunton ([email protected]), the Program Administrator (PA) for the Quality Management Systems Expert Committee. All comments will be tracked by the PA, and you will be notified of the committee's response to your comment after all comments are considered and addressed if they are deemed persuasive.
You are invited to provide comment and we ask that you provide alternative wording that would address your concern whenever possible. If persuasive comments are received and changes to the Draft Standard are needed, an additional revised Draft Standard will be re-presented for public comment.
Thank you for your input,
Ilona Taunton
TNI Program Administrator