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Environmental consultancy
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You are an environmental consultant, a private or public hydrology laboratory or a laboratory of a regional office.
Your laboratory carries out in situ measurements, performs water sampling or determines biological indexes.
AGLAE provides you with inter-laboratory comparisons for in situ physico-chemical measurements, sampling of different types of water and the determination of macro-invertebrate indexes and diatom biological indexes.
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The framework for sampling and analysis by your consultancy
- Monitoring the biological quality of watercourses is part of the monitoring of water bodies.
- As part of this process, laboratories take samples and determine the fauna (benthic invertebrates) and flora (diatoms and macrophytes) in watercourses.
- The results of these samplings and analyses are transcribed in the form of quality indicators that help to assess the ecological status of the water.
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Your expectations in terms of Quality Control
As part of your accreditation to ISO 17025 and/or approval, your environmental consultancy must meet the requirements of:
- accreditation guides for water sampling, on-site physico-chemical testing of water and biological analysis of aquatic environments
- approvals issued by Ministries of Health to carry out sampling operations
- approvals issued by Ministries for the Environment to carry out analyses of aquatic environments under the Environment Code
- the Water Framework Directive (WFD 2000/60/EC), which sets targets for preserving aquatic ecosystems.
You must ensure the validity of your results and monitor your performance by comparing it with the results of other laboratories.
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Which proficiency tests could be of interest to you?
Your laboratory is likely to be interested in the following categories of proficiency tests:
By taking part in these intercomparisons, your environmental consultancy receives an estimate of its analytical performance, enabling it to improve the quality of its measurements.