Guidance On Preparation Of Laboratory Quality Assurance Plans
Guidance On Preparation Of Laboratory Quality Assurance Plans (51kb, 19pp, pdf)
ABSTRACT
This document is designed to provide guidance on the preparation of laboratory quality assurance plans. A laboratory QA plan needs to include some of the elements from both QAMS-004 Interim Guidance for the Preparation of QA Program Plans (1) and QAMS-005 Interim Guidance for the Preparation of QA Project Plans (2) plus some additional topics. It is expected that laboratories that prepare a QA plan following this guidance will produce a plan that will cover all their operations and therefore would not produce "project specific" laboratory QA plans unless required. It is assumed that most laboratories operate at some specified level, i.e., parameter specific quantitation limits for a majority of their work. The laboratory may do work on specific projects that may require lower quantitation limits or tighter precision or accuracy goals than the lab's normal operating basis; only in these cases would project specific QA plans be required for those parameters that are not covered by normal laboratory operations. The laboratory QA plan is designed to be written to cover a single lab operating at a single location.