UNEP DATABANK OF LABORATORIES ANALYZING PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
"POPS LABORATORY DATABANK"
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LABORATORY : CENMA - Laboratorio de Química y Referencia Medio Ambiental (LQRMA) (Chile)
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9 Quality Assurance Program
Has the Laboratory a quality control system in place ?
(example : written instructions, manuals, registers, etc.) :
Yes
Has the Laboratory a quality assurance program in place ?
(certification by another institution, e.g., SQS) :
Yes
Has the Laboratory a person identified reponsible for QA/QC ? :
Yes
Comments :
LQRMA currently has national and international accreditation, has both the accreditation granted by the Instituto Nacional de Normalización (NCh/ISO 17025) and the accreditation granted by the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs [Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Canada] (ISO/IEC 17025. This laboratory is accredited only for analytes like metals, anions or cations but at these moment we developed the procedures and doing the validation for POPs analysis in concordance with the quality system.