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Hi Gareth,
This comes down to the grade of glassware (class A or B). When I looked into this last year, Class A glassware complied with the UKAS accreditation and traceability standards. As such, grade B lab glassware could be calibrated in-house against grade (class) A glassware with documented records of the calibration data (this requires you to buy in at least one set of grade A glassware if you don’t already have any). Unless this has changed since a year ago (which it seems to do from lab-to-lab), this satisfied UKAS.
Regards,
Gary
Dr Gary Woodward PhD
Principal Clinical Scientist
SAS Steroid Endocrinology
Universtry College Hospitals
60 Whitfield Street London W1T 4EU
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From: Clinical biochemistry discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gareth Davies (BCUHB - Pathology)
Sent: 01 November 2016 11:41
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Subject: Pipette Question
Good morning,
Are any ISO accredited labs using volumetric glassware, specifically pipettes for making up calibrators, IQC material etc?
Our automatic pipettes are regularly checked by an ISO-accredited company but we don’t routinely have our glass pipettes externally checked. Has this ever been brought up during an ISO inspection and if so, what were the solutions?
Many thanks.
Gareth
Gareth Davies
Biocemegydd Clinigol/Principal Clinical Biochemist
Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
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