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Quality Assurance Principles for Analytical Laboratories
Author: Frederick M. Garfield
Publisher: AOAC International
Copyright: 1991 in English; 1993 in Spanish; 1997 in Japanese
ISBN: 0-935584-46-3; 0-935584-50-1; 0-935584-63-3 respectively
Price: $65.00; $102.00; $150.00 respectively
Page Count: 192 pages; 193 pages; 188 pages respectively
Stock No.: 11000; 11025; 11050 respectively

This handbook provides guidelines and specific recommendations for initiating or improving a laboratory quality assurance (QA) Ppogram. It also provides justification for commitment of resources toward improved laboratory operations. The book draws on published principles, practices, guidelines, and procedures used by many organizations -- and includes illustrations of forms, reliable practices, procedures, and information used by several U.S. federal agencies. This edition contains a chapter on statistical applications and analytical control charting, which calls attention to how these techniques can be used in a QA program, and an appendix that provides criteria with which laboratories can self-evaluate their QA programs.

A 3rd Edition printed in 2000 (ISBN: 0-935584-70-6) was written by Garfield, Eugene Klesta, and Jerry Hirsch. The new edition costs $89.00 for AOAC members; $99 for non-members.

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