develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.Modified Voting Draft Standard and Response-to-Comments for Chemistry EL-V1M4
Date Posted: 8-29-2015
The Voting Draft Standard for Chemistry Detection and Quantitation (EL-V1M4 Sections 1.5.1 and 1.5.2) has passed the membership vote. It has now been amended by the Chemistry Expert Committee in order to resolve persuasive voters' comments. The amended standard, together with a response-to-comments document, may be accessed by clicking on the following links:
Modified Voting Draft Standard EL-V1M4 (PDF)
Response-to-Comments (Excel)
In conformance with SOP 2-100, within 15 days of this publication (8-29-2015), any Chemistry Committee Member may change his or her vote, by e-mailing [email protected]. If the two-thirds majority affirmative vote of the committee members is retained, the standard will then be released for voting as an Interim Standard.