Quality Assurance and Control

 

Accreditation

The ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation ensures international standards are maintained in the laboratories’ procedures, methodology, validation, QA/QC, reporting and record keeping. National Association of Testing Authorities Australia (NATA) has accredited Genalysis Laboratory Services Pty Ltd, following demonstration of its technical competence, to operate in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 which includes the management requirements of ISO 9001:2000. This facility is accredited in the field of Chemical Testing for the tests, calibrations and measurements shown in the Scope of Accreditation issued by NATA (Accreditation No. 3244).

Genalysis also participates in a number of regular international, national and internal proficiency round robins and client specific proficiency programs.

 

Analysis Quality Control

Certified Reference Materials and/or in house controls, blanks, splits and replicates are analysed with each batch of samples. These quality control results are reported along with the sample values in the final report. Selected samples are also re-analysed to confirm anomalous results.

Where the concentration of an element exceeds the capacity of the original method selected, then re-analysis will be required using a more appropriate digestion technique and analytical finish at the client’s expense.

Reporting

In addition to mailed hard-copy reports, electronic data transfer via email is available. We recommend that data to be transmitted by email be encrypted for security purposes.  Standard data formats available include CSV, Excel, Text and SIF.  Other non-standard formats and other services may be available upon request.

Please contact Genalysis to discuss your data needs prior to the commencement of your analysis.

 

Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

A sophisticated Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is in place for sample tracking, scheduling, quality control and electronic reporting .

Labtrack

Labtrack enables online live job status through a secure and personalised login.