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Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) for Spectrometer

Reference materials are particularly important for analytical chemistry and
clinical analysis. Since most analytical instrumentation is comparative, it
requires a sample of known composition (reference material) for accurate
calibration. These reference materials are produced under stringent
manufacturing procedures and differ from laboratory reagents in their
certification and the traceability of the data provided.

Certified Reference Material (CRM)

Reference material, accompanied by a certificate, one or more of whose
property values are certified by a procedure which establishes its
traceability to an accurate realization of the unit in which the property
values are expressed, and for which each certified value is accompanied
by an uncertainty at a stated level of confidence. The CRMs are certified by
a recognized certifying organization using approved certification
procedures as instructed in ISO Guide 35:1989.

Reference Material (RM)

A material substance one or more of whose property values are sufficiently
homogeneous and well established to be used for the calibration of an
apparatus, the assessment of a measurement method, or for assigning
values to materials.

Setting Up Samples (SUS)

Materials which have an uncertified analysis to be used as a guide. These
materials are assigned values for each element during calibration of the
instrument with CRMs and RMs. These assigned values are used for day-
to-day or shift-to-shift adjustment of the instrument. This process is often
called "drift correction", "standardization of the calibration", or "re-
standardization".

Some of the major producers of CRMs are Brammer Standard, BAS &
MBH Analytical. Below is a brief on all of them:

MBH Analytical Ltd has been supplying Certified Reference Materials for
spectroscopic and spectrochemical analysis since 1973, and has
grown to become one of the world’s major producers and suppliers.
Materials manufactured and supplied by MBH can be found in metallurgical
and analytical laboratories all over the world.

Brammer Standard produces and distributes over 10,000 chemical and

spectrochemical analytical reference materials from producers around the
world. Brammer started operation in 1968 with the offering of 7 carbon and
low alloy steel discs. Brammer now produces over 250 Reference Materials
using 6 to 15 cooperating laboratories in an inter-laboratory testing
program.

BAS (Bureau of Analysed Samples) was formed in 1935 to ensure the

continuation of the work of the British Chemical Standards (BCS)
Movement which was started in 1916 as an informal association of
chemists in the iron and steel industry. The first British Certified Reference
Materials were produced over eighty years ago with the assistance of NBS
(now NIST) in the USA.

References: www.brammerstandard.com, www.basrid.co.uk, www.mbh.co.

uk.