Development of proficiency tests for agricultural laboratories aiming reproducibility of results and maintenance of ISO/IEC 17025

• Grant number: 20/01238-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2020
• End date: May 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Igor Renato Bertoni Olivares
• Grantee: Igor Renato Bertoni Olivares
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Vitor Hugo Polisel Pacces

Abstract

Currently it is inconceivable not to consider the need (and often obligatory) regarding the application of Quality Management in laboratories. Among the different types of laboratories in Brazil, due to the importance of agribusiness, we highlight the agricultural laboratories that perform tests of interest to agriculture, whether in the analysis of food, inputs or medicines. Due to a requirement from the Ministry of Agriculture, under pressure from food importing countries, these laboratories need to have implemented quality management systems such as ISO/IEC 17025 and apply other tools, such as the use of Proficiency Testing, to ensure quality and reproducibility of results, which leads to the need to develop national Proficiency Tests to meet specific demands of agricultural laboratories. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BERTONI OLIVARES, IGOR RENATO; DE SOUZA, GILBERTO BATISTA; DE ARAUJO NOGUEIRA, ANA RITA; POLISEL PACCES, VITOR HUGO; GRIZOTTO, PAMELA APARECIDA; DA SILVA GOMES LIMA, PAULA SOUZA; BONTEMPI, RHAISSA MECCA. Trends in the development of proficiency testing for chemical analysis: focus on food and environmental matrices. ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE, v. 27, n. 2, p. 29-pg., 2022-01-29. (18/26145-9, 20/01238-4)

RODRIGUES, CAROLAINE DE OLIVEIRA; OLIVARES, IGOR RENATO BERTONI; REISCHAK, DILMARA; CATOZZI, MARIANA BENATTI; CARDOSO, FERNANDA GOMES; PINHEL, MARIA DE FATIMA MARTINS. Development and application of proficiency testing (PT) to evaluate the diagnostic capacity of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-qPCR- A practical and metrological approach. DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE, v. 107, n. 2, p. 6-pg., 2023-10-01. (20/01238-4)