NDLI: Capability of laboratories to determine core nutrients in foods: results of an international proficiency test

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Author	Chung, Stephen W. C. Tran, Jeff C. H. Wong, W. W.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	A proficiency test (PT) to assess the capabilities of laboratories to determine nutrients in a biscuit sample was carried out in September 2009. The need for such interlaboratory comparison arose from an increasing nutrition labeling requirements of different countries around the world. Forty-eight laboratories worldwide participated in this PT program for the determination of total lipids, saturated fat, trans-fat, protein, sugars, total dietary fiber (TDF), ash and sodium in food. This program was organized under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC). APLAC considers PT programs as one of the objective means of assessing the performance of the accredited laboratories. The program is one of the APLAC PT series whose primary purposes are to establish mutual agreement on the equivalence of the operation of APLAC member laboratories and to provide an opportunity to identify testing deficiency so that corrective actions can be taken, if necessary. The results of this program indicated that the consensus mean values estimated by robust statistics were in good agreement with the corresponding values obtained in the homogeneity tests except for trans-fat and TDF. The relative standard deviations of participant results for trans-fat and TDF were also found to be higher (19 and 24%, respectively) than the other test parameters. The relative standard deviations for other test parameters were less than 10%. One-half of the laboratories obtained satisfactory z-scores $$ (\left\| z \right\| < 3) $$ for all their reported results. Although participants were instructed to provide the measurement uncertainties of their reported results, only 27.5% of them had done so. Albeit many of the measurement uncertainties appear to be reasonable, some of them were found to vary widely, indicating that some laboratories still have difficulties in estimating measurement uncertainties. Although the overall measurement capability can be considered to be satisfactory, there is still room for improvement of analytical procedures.
Starting Page	35
Ending Page	44
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09491775
Journal	Accreditation and Quality Assurance
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	14320517
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-10-14
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Asia-Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Food Laboratory performance Nutrient Performance assessment Proficiency test Measurement uncertainty Commercial Law Marketing Food Science Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Ecotoxicology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Instrumentation Chemical Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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