Abstract
In order to ensure food consumer protection as well as to avoid barriers to trade and unnecessary duplications of laboratory tests and to gain mutual recognition of results of analyses, the quality of laboratories and test results has to be guaranteed. For this purpose, the EC Council and the Commission have introduced provisions
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on measures for quality assurance for official laboratories concerning the analyses of foodstuffs on the one hand and animals and fresh meat on the other,
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on the validation of test methods to obtain results of sufficient accuracy.
This article deals with legal requirements in the European Union on basic principles of laboratory quality assurance for official notification to the EC Commission and on method validation concerning official laboratories. Widespread discussions and activities on measurement uncertainty are in progress, and the European validation standards for official purposes may serve as a basis for world-wide efforts on quality harmonization of analytical results. Although much time has already been spent, definitions and requirements have to be revised and further additions have to be made.
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Hey, H. (1998). Different approaches to legal requirements on validation of test methods for official control of foodstuffs and of veterinary drug residues and element contaminants in the EC. In: De Bièvre, P., Günzler, H. (eds) Validation in Chemical Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27034-5_29
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