The role of the EPA radiation quality assurance program in the measurement quality assurance accreditation program for radioassay laboratories

Conference · Fri Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:250240

Grady, T M ^[1]

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1. Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory, Las Vegas, NV (United States)

As the nature and extent of radiological contamination becomes better documented and more public, radioanalytical laboratories are faced with a constantly expanding variety of new and difficult analytical requirements. Concurrent with those requirements is the responsibility to provide customers, regulatory officials, or the public with defensible data produced in an environment of verifiable, controlled quality. To meet that need, a quality assurance accreditation program for radioassay laboratories has been proposed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The standard will provide the organizational framework and functional requirements needed to assure the quality of laboratory outputs. Under the proposed program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA`s) Laboratory Intercomparison Program plays a key role as a reference laboratory. The current and proposed roles of the EPA Intercomparison Program are discussed, as are the functional relationships between EPA, the accreditating organization, and the service and monitoring laboratories.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 250240
• Report Number(s): PNL--10076; CONF-9303220--; ON: DE96008816
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

40 CHEMISTRY
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
CALIBRATION
CERTIFICATION
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
QUALITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
RADIOASSAY
US EPA