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

GSCAR-1 2025

Wastewater

Wastewater

MA: COPPER (mg/L), TOTAL CHROMIUM (µg/L Cr), COD (mg O2/L), PHOSPHATES (mg/L), FLUORIDES (mg/L), TOTAL PHOSPHORUS (mg/L P), IRON (mg/L Fe), MERCURY (µg/L Hg), NITRATES (mg/L), AMMONIUM NITROGEN (mg/L N), KJELDAHL NITROGEN (mg/L N), TOTAL NITROGEN (mg/L N)

MB: CHLORIDES (mg/L as chloride ion), CONDUCTIVITY AT 25ºC (µS/cm), BOD5 (mg O2/L), pH (upH)

MC: SUSPENDED SOLIDS (mg/L)

GSCAR-2 2024

Wastewater

Aguas residuales

MA: ARSENIC (mg/L), CADMIUM (mg/L), COT (mg/L), ANIONIC DETERGENTS (mg Sodium Lauryl Sulfate/L)(1), COD (mg O2/L), PHENOLS (mg/L)(1), LEAD (mg/L),

MB: CHROMIUM VI (mg/L)(1)

MC: BOD5 (mg O2/L)(1)(3), pH (upH)(2)

MD: CHLORIDES (mg/L), CONDUCTIVITY AT 25 ºC (mS/cm)(2), SUSPENDED SOLIDS (mg/L)(4)

ME: CATIONIC DETERGENTS (mg/L)(1)

GSCAR-3/2024

Wastewater

WASTEWATER

MA: COD (mg O2/L)(5), TOTAL PHOSPHORUS (mg/L P), MERCURY (µg/L Hg), NICKEL (µg/L), KJELDAHL NITROGEN (mg/L N), ZINC (µg/L)

MB: CONDUCTIVITY AT 25 ºC (µS/cm) (3), BOD5 (mg O2/L) (1)(2), PH (upH) (3)

MC: SUSPENDED SOLIDS (mg/L) (4)

ME: BARIUM (mg/L), TIN (mg/L)

GSCAR-4 2024

Wastewater

Wastewater

M1: TOXICITY (INHIBITORY SUBSTANCES), EQUITOX

M2: TOXICITY (INHIBITORY SUBSTANCES), EQUITOX

GSCCA-1/2025

Fishery Product (Crab Meat)

Food Preservatives

M1: SODIUM METABISULFITE (SULFUR DIOXIDE) (MG/KG SO₂)

GSCPC-2/2024

Toasted bread

M1: Acrylamide (µg/kg)