Quality Assurance

GLP and Accreditation in the research devision Applied Ecology

GLP Certificate (Good Laboratory Practice) for chemicals and other test materials for the following test categories: 

Category 1: Physical-chemical testing

Category 4: Environmental toxicity studies on aquatic and terrestrial organisms

Category 5: Studies on behavior in water, soil and air; bioaccumulation and metabolization

Category 6: Residue studies 

Category 7: Studies of effects on mesocosms and natural ecosystems

Contact: Dr. Cornelia Bernhardt

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Accreditation according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 to perform tests in the area of "Sampling of soils for storage and investigation for the Environmental Specimen Bank, physical, physical-chemical and chemical analytics of water, soil, sewage sludge, sludge, sediments, suspended solids as well as aquatic and terrestric environmental matrices".

Sampling of soils for storage and investigation for the Environmental Specimen Bank

Sample pretreatment, preparation and processing for physical, physical-chemical and chemical analytics

Physical, physical-chemical and chemical analytics

Determination of water content and dry mass (Gravimetry)

Determination of particle size distribution in soils via sieving

Determination of particle size distribution in aquatic and terrestric environment matrices via laser diffraction

Determination of elements via inductive coupled Plasma-Atom-Emmision Spectrometry (ICP-OES)

Determination of elements via inductive coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)

Determination of elements via Atom Adsorption Spectrometry (AAS)

Determination of elements and metall compounds via coupled methods (GC/ICP-MS, Hydrid ICP-MS)

 

AKK certificate annex

Overview of the test procedures in flexible accreditation area

 

Contact: Dr. Cornelia Bernhardt

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