Quality Assurance and Good Laboratory Practice

This chapter introduces the tools available to ensure the quality of analytical–chemical measurements. It helps to learn about regulatory and legal aspects of quality assurance and quality control. Validation describes, in general, the assurance that an analytical procedure provides reproducible and secure results that are required for the intended application. An analytical laboratory proves its effective quality assurance system through accreditation. Accreditation attests to the competence of a laboratory for performing given analytical methods versus an independent customer. The chapter also explores the concept of good laboratory practice (GLP).