Resources

Course References

• Quality Assurance for Animal Feed Analysis Laboratories (FAO 2011)
• Quality Assurance for Microbiology in Feed Analysis Laboratories (FAO 2013)
• Strengthening Quality Control Systems in Animal Feed Analysis Laboratory in Developing Countries (FAO 2013)
• The Feed Analysis Laboratory: Establishment and Quality Control (FAO 2013)
• ISO/IEC17025: 2017
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Laboratory Quality

• Office of the Texas State Chemist Laboratory Quality Manual
• Office of the Texas State Chemist List of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  

Laboratory Quality Control Techniques

• OTSC – TAMU Agrilife Research Aflatoxin Proficiency Testing and Control Program
  (Login Information: Lab Number-101 ; Password –StudentLab01 )

• ISO 17043 - Conformity assessment — General requirements for proficiency testing
  
  
• Sources of Uncertainty in Measurement for Every Uncertainty Budget
  
  
• One Sample Strategy Handbook
  
  
• GOOD Samples: Guidance on Obtaining Defensible Samples

Method Validation

• Harmonized Guidelines for Single Laboratory Validation of Methods of Analysis (IUPAC Technical Report)
  
  
• OTSC SOP – Validation of New Methods of Analysis (2012)
  
  
• Guidelines for the validation and verification of quantitative and qualitative test methods (National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia, 2012)
  
  
• Design Criteria and Test Performance Specifications for Quantitative Aflatoxin Test Kits (GIPSA, 2018)
  
  
• Guidelines for the Validation of Analytical Methods for the Detection of Microbiological Pathogens in Foods and Feeds  (FDA 2015)
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• Design Criteria and Test Performance Specification for Biotechnology Rapid Kits (July 2018)

Laboratory Management

• Risk Management and ISO 17025
  
  
• Understanding the Material  Safety Data Sheet
  
  
• Calculating Costs: How a LIMS-based cost recovery model can improve operational efficiencies and resource utilization
  
  
• OTSC Lab Safety Manual

 

 

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