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Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers

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Authors:
  1. Saverio Mannino

    1. Formerly, Department of Food Science Technology and Microbiology, University of Milan, MILANO, Italy

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  • Provides a step-by-step guideline for the implementation of managerial and technical requirements
  • Covers the essentials for quality management in the food control laboratory
  • Supplies guidelines for analysis selection, preparation, and validation

Part of the book series: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain (ISEKI-Food, volume 14)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction and ISO17025:2017

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    Pages 1-16

  3. Essentials for Quality Management in a Chemical Testing Laboratory

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    Pages 17-35

  4. Preparing for Analysis: The Analytical Method

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    Pages 37-43

  5. Statistics for the Quality Control Laboratory

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    Pages 45-98

  6. Uncertainty Measurements

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    Pages 99-115

  7. Control Charts and Process Capability

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    Pages 117-138

  8. Risk Management

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    Pages 139-158

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 159-160
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About this book

This useful and extensive set of guidelines is designed to assist food control laboratories in gaining accreditation from an internationally recognized external body, providing all of the necessary information and practices in an easy-to-read, step-by-step fashion.  Authored by an experienced consultant for laboratory accreditation in many different countries, with this text food control lab owners now have all of the up-to-date information they need to gain accreditation in a single source. 

Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers covers the essentials for quality management in the food control laboratory, from testing processes to current quality management systems. The ISO standards for accreditation are extensively explored, including managerial requirements, organizational aspects, complaint handling procedures, internal audits, and sampling. An entire section is dedicated to the implementation of managerial and technicalrequirements from quality control to program monitoring and evaluation. Analysis selection, preparation, and validation is covered extensively, and an entire section is dedicated to basic statistics from data presentation to distribution. Each section comes with helpful tips for lab managers plus definitions and terms. 



Comprehensive, easy-to-use and up-to-date, Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers is the guide for accreditation for food control laboratories. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Formerly, Department of Food Science Technology and Microbiology, University of Milan, MILANO, Italy

    Saverio Mannino

About the author

Saverio Mannino is a former professor of Food Quality Control at the University of Milan in Milan, Italy. Author of about 150 publication concerning food analysis, at present international consultant and member of the Accreditation Committee of the Department of Testing Laboratories of Accredia  ( the Italian Laboratory Accreditation Body)  member of the European co-operation for Accreditation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers

  • Authors: Saverio Mannino

  • Series Title: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11724-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11723-7Published: 23 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11726-8Published: 23 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11724-4Published: 22 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2512-2223

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-2258

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 160

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Food Science, Organic Chemistry

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