Achieving quality in the medical laboratory requires the use of many tools. This workbook explains the basic knowledge necessary to understand a simple but effective statistical process control system ...

The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Laboratory suffers from severe staffing shortages, management shortcomings and other problems that could hamper the quality of the work being done, ...

Sigma metrics constitute a quantitative approach that integrates bias, imprecision and total allowable error to evaluate the performance of clinical laboratory assays ...

The concepts of quality assurance and audits are two distinct ideas that serve the same purpose: improving quality, consistency and reliability in operations. Quality assurance is more of an abstract ...

The Food Safety and Control Laboratory (FSCL) is located at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories, Seibersdorf. The laboratory assists Member States to improve laboratory and ...

Quality that has been certified is a critical attribute for laboratory consumables. While plastic labware may look simple, the precise geometric requirements that make pipette tips accurate and ...

Quality inspectors at Boeing, angry at management’s plan to streamline and automate some quality-control processes with fewer inspectors overseeing the work of mechanics, point to a recent ...