Dioxins and Furans covered by ISO Guide 34 and ISO/IEC 17025

LGC Standards is delighted to offer the first isotope labelled dioxin and furan standards covered by ISO Guide 34 and ISO/IEC 17025 accreditations. The standards, with their unlabelled counterparts, are manufactured for Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) by Cerilliant Corporation. In November 2008, Cerilliant added the accreditations of ISO Guide 34 and ISO/IEC 17025 to its arsenal of quality credentials.

CIL and Cerilliant have been the world leaders in the production of isotope labelled environmental standards for nearly 30 years. Their pioneering work in the preparation of chlorinated and brominated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran standards led to the first International Round Robin study by many of the worlds leading labs to establish consensus values for the most important dioxin and furan isomers. Since then CIL and Cerilliant standards have been used by the world’s leading ultra-trace analytical labs and have been accepted as the world’s “gold standards” for analyses in this area.

The availability of these standards meets a growing need for laboratories to use products from accredited suppliers. ISO/IEC 17025 requires laboratories to ensure the competence of producers of reference materials. Accreditation to ISO Guide 34 “General Requirements for the Competence of Reference Material Producers” is designed to ensure competency in the manufacture of reference materials and assurance that international guidelines are followed in the production and assignment of material property values. The incorporation of ISO Guide 34 and ISO/IEC 17025 to Cerilliant’s quality manufacturing program adds one more validation to a 30-year history of quality credentials.

This accreditation covers products coded CIL-ED, CIL-EF and CIL-EDF on page 523-554 of our Analytical reference materials, standards, and high purity solvents 2008/2009 catalogue, as well as C13 labelled PAHs on pages 601-602 and labelled chemical weapons metabolites on pages 637-638.

Certificates of analysis and a copy of the accreditation certificate can be obtained by emailing CIL Guide 34 to uksales@lgcstandards.com