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Quality Aspects in Selecting, Installing and Maintaining an XRF Spectrometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Peter L. Warren*
Affiliation:
ICI Materials, Middlesbrough Cleveland TS90 8JE, England
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Extract

The influence of Quality in the laboratory is now all pervading. Increasingly there is a climate which requires laboratories of any reasonable standing to be accredited to the appropriate Quality standard. Within ICI, a number of quality initiatives had manifest themselves- such as GLP1 (Good Lab Practice), BS-57502,TSO-90023, or NAMAS4 (National Measurement Accreditation Service). The latter is a UK body whose accreditation is particularly appropriate to research, analytical and contract laboratories.

Type
IX. XRS Mathematical Methods, Trace Analysis and Other Applications
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1994

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