Attachment_2_-_General_Quality_Control_Requirements.pdf

ATTACHMENT 2: GENERAL QUALITY CONTROL REQUIREMENTS

Standard laboratory practices for laboratory cleanliness regarding glassware and apparatus must be strictly followed. Laboratory practices regarding reagents, solvents and gases must also be followed. For guidelines applicable to these general laboratory practices, please refer to “Manual for the Certification of Laboratories Analyzing Drinking Water: Criteria and Procedures, Quality Assurance”, Fifth edition, EPA815-R-05-004, January 2005. Quality Assurance: The contractor shall follow strict quality assurance and quality control protocol per applicable analytical methods (Attachment 1) and (Attachment 2). All method-specific quality assurance/quality control requirements (laboratory blanks, laboratory control samples, laboratory/method dups, and method-required matrix spikes) shall be included in the contract, per field sample bid price (no additional charges for laboratory/method-required QA/QC). It is understood field QC samples (field blanks, rinse blanks, matrix spike requirements above method requirements) will be charged the field sample rate.

1.0 Quality Control Requirements

Radiochemistry Measurements in Biological Samples

• Blank Analysis - A method blank sample must be analyzed at a frequency of one per APHC reparation batch. The blank shall contain only natural or baseline levels of radioactivity. This blank must be a true reagent blank.

• The contract laboratory shall follow quality control guidelines described in the

Health Physics Society/American National Standards Institute “Performance Criteria for Radiobioassay” (HPS N13.30-1996)