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Analyte Trend - Advantage Reporting
Repeatability is critical to good data quality. The Advantage Reporting Tool’s Analyte Trend Page shows historical performance of an analyte to provide a visual interpretation of long-term performance.
The Analyte Trend plots your results over time to inter-laboratory averages based on percent recovery and z score.
Learn more about the Analyte Trend
[http://www.apgqa.com/newsletters/9_2005_trend.asp]
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New Water and Soils products
added beginning November 2005
APG is pleased to announce we have added new
state specific samples in wastewater, drinking water and soils.
The wastewater and drinking water samples are available November 2005. New
Soil and Hazardous waste samples will begin in January 2006. Your participations
is greatly encouraged. Trial samples
are avilable at no charge.
Read the complete article
[http://www.apgqa.com/newsletters/9_2005_products.asp]
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Benzyl alcohol or Not Benzyl alcohol?
Historically false positives for benzyl alcohol in the Base/Neutral Extractable have plagued proficiency testing (PT) participants.
The most probable source of the benzyl alcohol is the extraction process for the base neutrals,
in which a pH adjustment is necessary to obtain recovery of the full range of compounds.
Read the complete article
[http://www.apgqa.com/newsletters/9_2005_benzyl.asp]
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Method Required Quality Control:
Smoke & Mirrors or Common Sense
All
EPA methods have a Quality Control section which usually requires several cross checks of
method performance. These cross checks include Continuing Calibration Standards, Blanks, Duplicates,
Matrix Spikes, and Laboratory Control Standards (LCS). Only the LCS is designed to actually
monitor the performance of the method. The other components measure instrument drift, matrix
effects, or contamination issues.
Read the complete article
[http://www.apgqa.com/newsletters/9_2005_methodQC.asp]
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W.E. TEAM - Gets involved.
It is the
goal of every company to meet its customer’s needs. It is our
goal to meet our customer’s needs without exception. The W.E. Team at APG is helping us to achieve this goal.
Read the complete article
[http://www.apgqa.com/newsletters/9_2005_WEInvolved.asp]
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DMRQA Corrective Actions
Must be negotiated by December 8th
We are entering the final phase of DMRQA Study 25. APG is shipping the final reports. Corrective Action must be negotiated by December 8, 2005.
Learn more about DMRQA Remediation
[http://www.apgqa.com/newsletters/9_2005_dmrqa.asp]
Order DMRQA 25 Remediation Samples
[http://www.apgqa.com/remediation]
Announcement Letter
[http://www.apgqa.com/308]
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Pizza Party Winner Announced
The
winner of the DMRQA Online Data Entry Pizza Party is Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, St. Louis, MO. Gregg Frazier, General Manager, of APG will delivery the
pizzas to St. Louis in October. APG would like to thank the more than 1500
laboratories that registered for the drawing by entering their data online for
DMRQA Study 25.
Winners of the IPOD Shuffle
Congralations to Karen Costa of U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range who
won the July iPod shuffle by responding to our questions about the soil Proficiency Testing Programs.
Jane Winkler of the City of Hamilton, Ohio won
August's IPOD shuffle by responding to the question regarding the
Advantage Reporting and Advantage Training Tools. We appreciate
everyone comments. Good luck to everyone this month.
Congratulations Jane.
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