Do you need control materials to validate your methods or carry out your quality control?

In addition to organizing proficiency testing schemes, we provide you with leftover samples from proficiency testing rounds in the agri-food and environmental fields. These are available for laboratories that wish to develop internal quality controls with safe samples. All of them come with a certificate that includes:

  • Assigned value and associated uncertainty, and the number of laboratories assigning it
  • Details about the nature of the sample, representative of the matrices commonly analyzed

GSC JUICE/2024

Orange juice

JUICE

M1A: Total acidity (g citric acid/100 mL)(1), Total sugars (%)(1), Density (20ºC/20ºC)(1), Fructose (mg/100 mL)(1), Glucose (mg/100 mL)(1), Brix degrees at 20ºC (°Brix), Sucrose (mg/100 mL)(1)

M1B: Sulfur dioxide (mg/L)(1)

GSCFEED-4/2024

Animal Feed and Wheat

Animal Feed

M1: Starch* 5 29.24 3.39 23.39 35.09, Ash at 550ºC 10 7.59 0.15 6.07 9.11, Ash at 550ºC 8 3.31 0.49 1.99 4.63, Crude fat without prior hydrolysis 8 12.2 0.6 9.8 14.6, Moisture at 103ºC 10 8.6 0.5 6.9 10.3, Crude protein (N% x 6.25) 10 25.52 0.57 22.97 28.07

M2: Starch* 7 60.02 3.07 48.02 72.02, Ash at 550ºC 10 1.54 0.07 1.23 1.85, Crude fiber* 6 2.57 0.26 2.06 3.08, Crude fat without prior hydrolysis 8 1.44 0.16 1.15 1.73, Moisture at 130ºC 9 10.7 0.7 8.6 12.8, Crude protein (N% x 6.25) 10 11.6 0.31 10.5 12.8, Crude ash (IR)* 3 1.61 0.36 1.29 1.93, Crude fat without prior hydrolysis IR* 3 1.55 0.44 1.24 1.86, Moisture IR* 3 11.1 0.6 10.0 12.2, Crude protein (N% x 6.25) IR* 3 11.51 0.2 10.36 12.66

GSCGLU-1/2024

Meat product (Cooked ham)

Allergens in foods

M1: GLUTEN (mg/kg)

GSCMPA-1/2024

Swordfish

Heavy metals in food

M1: Arsenic (mg/kg) Cadmium (mg/kg) Copper (mg/kg) Tin (mg/kg) Iron (mg/kg) Manganese (mg/kg) Mercury (mg/kg) Lead (mg/kg) Zinc (mg/kg)

GSCSLU/2024

Sludge

M1: Total calcium (% (CaO) d.w.)* Conductivity at 25ºC (1:5) (µS/cm)* Total phosphorus (% (P2O5) d.w.)* Iron (mg/kg d.w.)* Total magnesium (% (MgO) d.w.)* Organic matter (% d.w.) Dry matter (%) Kjeldahl nitrogen* (% d.w.)* pH (1:5) (in aqueous extract) (pH units)* Total potassium (% (K2O) d.w.)*