develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.TNI Recognizes Oklahoma DEQ as a NELAP Accreditation Body
Date Posted: 4-4-2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 4, 2018
On April 2, 2018, TNI's Accreditation Council recognized the Laboratory Accreditation Program of the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality as a National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP) Accreditation Body. Under Oklahoma's program, Oklahoma's laboratories may voluntarily apply to be accredited to the TNI Environmental Laboratory Sector Standard for these categories:
Drinking water laboratory. A drinking water laboratory may be accredited for Fields of Accreditation in the following categories: metals, general chemistry, microbiology, asbestos, synthetic organic chemicals (SOCs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or radionuclides.
General environmental laboratory. A laboratory may be accredited for Fields of Accreditation in the following categories: metals, nutrients, oxygen demands, semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), general chemistry I and/or II, microbiology, asbestos, synthetic organic chemicals (SOCs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), radionuclides, whole effluent toxicity (WET) testing, hazardous waste characterization, petroleum hydrocarbons, perchlorate, and/or basic environmental laboratory.
NELAP accredited laboratories in other states may now apply for secondary accreditation from Oklahoma without additional proficiency testing, quality assurance, or on-site assessment requirements.
Oklahoma becomes the 14th state to join TNI's national effort to establish rigorous standards to ensure the competency of laboratories that measure contaminants in environmental media.
For more information about the Oklahoma program, go to http://www.deq.state.ok.us/CSDnew/labcert.htm.
For More Information about NELAP Lynn Bradley, NELAP Program
Administrator
[email protected]
Link to Press Release: http://nelac-institute.org/docs/news/okdeqpress.pdf