Quality assurance and quality control

procedures

Why?

 Users must be satisfied with the quality – the fitness

of purpose – of the measurements (method performance
studies)

 Results from different laboratories must be comparable

(laboratory performance studies)

 Results must be supplied with realistic estimate of their

uncertainty (transparency and traceability)
 The learning process*

Knowledge Extraction of
Hypothesis
Synthesis information
ISO/IUPAC/AOAC

Experimental design Method validation Models

Development Analysis
Creativity
Data acquisition
Experiment

*Environmental Chemistry: measuring and modelling ( WE 11623 )

Chemical functionality (WE 8369)
 Examples of modelling works at ANCH
 Oceanography and Biogeochemistry
 Optimum multi parameter analysis. To provide information
about water mass circulation and to separate mixing from
biochemical processes (adebrauw@vub.ac.be)
 Compartmental analysis. To extract information from
experiments using stable isotopes C, N and Si
(melskens@vub.ac.be)
 Factorial design and optimization. To assess the influence of
biogeochemical variables on N & C productivity
(melskens@vub.ac.be)
Examples of modelling works at ANCH
 System Identification
 Climate time series analysis. To predict future changes in
ecological and climatological variables and to separate
human impact from natural fluctuations (federid@vub.ac.be)
 Health and Environment
 Risk assessment. To assess human and ecological risks
associated with the use of pesticides (melskens@vub.ac.be)
 Trace metal contamination. To extract information from
measurements using passive sampling devices: Organic vs
inorganic metal speciation (melskens@vub.ac.be)