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ISO Guide 35 Statistical Procedures For Reference Materials

This document summarizes a presentation on revisions to ISO Guide 35 for assigning property values to reference materials. Key points include: - Guide 35 is currently difficult for commercial producers and accreditation bodies to implement - Proposed revisions address issues like non-certified reference materials, equivalence of replacement batches, and uncertainty when materials degrade - The scope may be expanded to provide more detailed guidance on assessing homogeneity, stability, characterization, and metrological traceability - Characterization approaches may be consolidated and require a minimum number of independent datasets from different methods and laboratories

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ISO Guide 35 Statistical Procedures For Reference Materials

This document summarizes a presentation on revisions to ISO Guide 35 for assigning property values to reference materials. Key points include: - Guide 35 is currently difficult for commercial producers and accreditation bodies to implement - Proposed revisions address issues like non-certified reference materials, equivalence of replacement batches, and uncertainty when materials degrade - The scope may be expanded to provide more detailed guidance on assessing homogeneity, stability, characterization, and metrological traceability - Characterization approaches may be consolidated and require a minimum number of independent datasets from different methods and laboratories

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ISO Guide 35:

Current requirements and proposed


revision

HKAS Training Course


21 January, 2014
Daniel Tholen, M.S.

ISO Guide 35 Training


ISO Guides for Reference Materials
Guide 34 requirements in Guide 35
Traceability, Characterization,
Homogeneity, Stability
Uncertainty

Guide 34 requirements not in Guide 35


Replacement batches
Qualitative properties
Non-certified Reference Materials
Uncertainty in the presence of degradation

ISO Guide 35 Training


Guide 35 clarifications
Use of previous batches for homogeneity and
stability
Minimum uncertainty for homogeneity and
stability
Independent datasets for characterization
Short term stability and transportation

ISO Guides for Reference Materials


Guide 30: terms and definitions for RM
1992 version, amended 2008

Guide 31: contents of certificates and labels


Guide 34: General requirements for
competence of RM producers
Guide 35: General and statistical principles
for certification
Tentative Revision Title: General guidance for
the assignment of property values

ISO Guides for Reference Materials


ISO Guides developed out of step
Guide 30 1981
1992 (amended 2008)
Guide 31 1981
2000
Guide 34
1996, 2000, 2009
Guide 35 1985, 1989,
2006
2014?

Each revised document slightly changes


others, especially Guides 34 and 35

ISO Guides for Reference Materials


Revisions to ISO Guides 30 and 31 2014 ?
New Guidance documents:
Internal production of RMs for QC (Guide 80)
RMs for Nominal properties (TR 79)
Guidance for use of RMs (Guide 33)

ISO 17034 ?

Next meeting of REMCO in July, USA

Guide 35 references in Guide 34


Guide 35 is a normative reference for Guide 34
indispensible for the application of this document.

4.1.2 Quality policy - The quality policy shall


include but shall not be limited to the following
commitments:
b) to produce, where applicable, certified reference
materials according to the requirements of ISO Guide
35 and accompanied by certificates meeting the
requirements of ISO Guide 31;

Guide 35 references in Guide 34


Summary: Guide 35 is referenced for:

5.12 Metrological traceability


5.13 Assessment of homogeneity
5.14 Assessment of stability
5.15 Characterization
5.16 Assignment of property values and their
uncertainties

Current Approach in Guide 35


Intended for REMCO members who are
responsible for transferring traceability
Assumes high level technical competence
by RMP, including statistical techniques
Requirements are not clearly stated
Not an assessment document

Current Approach in Guide 35


Not designed for situation of commercial
Reference Material Producers
Cost considerations
Time to market
Uncertainty

Difficult for many Accreditation Bodies


Statistics, traceability, uncertainty

Issues not addressed in Guide 35


Non-certified RMs (RMs for use other than
calibration) e.g. QC and PT
Demonstrating equivalence of replacement
batches
Use of information from similar batches

Uncertainty in the presence of degradation


Qualitative RMs
Stability under usage conditions
Might not be addressed in revision

Confusing topics in Guide 35


Minimum uncertainty for homogeneity ?
Must be > 0

Minimum uncertainty for stability ?


Must be > 0

Short term stability vs. transportation


Characterization in one laboratory using a
single (primary) method

Current status of revision


Four sections discussed
Draft revisions prepared for conference calls
Many issues discussed on conference calls
No revisions circulated after conference calls

Draft CD to be distributed for comment,


February, 2014
Comments discussed in July, 2014
Approval time?

Proposed changes from latest


circulated drafts
General changes
Considerations for commercial RMPs
Use of information from previous batches
Restructure for process of production
Design
Homogeneity
Stability
Characterization
Uncertainty
Statistical Annex
Examples

Draft Scope
This Guide gives general guidance and explains
concepts to assist with the understanding and
development of valid methods to assign values to
properties of a reference material, including the
evaluation of their associated measurement
uncertainty, and the establishment of their
metrological traceability.

Draft Scope (continued)


This Guide complements ISO Guide 34 by
providing detailed descriptions of acceptable
approaches for the production of reference
materials with reference to the assessment of
homogeneity and stability, the characterisation of
reference materials, estimating uncertainties of the
assigned values and by giving information on how
to achieve and demonstrate the metrological
traceability of assigned values.

Homogeneity
General considerations
Homogeneity testing is usually necessary
New Reference materials
Inherently inhomogeneous materials (e.g., food
matrix, soils, gases)

Can use estimates of uncertainty from


previous batches of similar material
With confirmation check

Homogeneity
Uncertainty

Homogeneity Minimum
Number of Units to Test

Homogeneity Other
considerations (in current G35)
Check within-unit homogeneity
Check for trend in testing order
Check for trend in production order
Check for outlier difference between replicates

Can use interlaboratory nested design


Report minimum sample amount (uptake)
Do not need to test all properties

Stability
General considerations
Can use information from previous batches
of similar material
Need technical justification

Can allow ults = 0


Need evidence from previous batches

Should test all properties

Stability
Post-release monitoring
Frequent monitoring can be used when
there is little classical or accelerated stability
testing
No monitoring needed if shelf life is short
Possible change between monitoring points
less than 1/3 claimed uncertainty
If there are replacement batches, there
should always be testing of retained
samples at time of expiration

Stability
Short term Stability
Short term Stability includes 2 factors
Transportation
Storage by user under alternative conditions

If no alternative storage conditions, use


uncertainty due to transport (utran) instead
of usts
Should generally test all properties

Stability Types of
Long-term Studies
Classical, or real-time studies
Analyses as time elapses
Includes reproducibility variance

Isochronus studies
All analyses at same time (no reproducibility)
Requires conditions under which no
degradation occurs

Accelerated studies
Requires model for degradation
Requires inclusion of uncertainty of model

Stability Uncertainty when


there is degradation
When predicted change exceeds 30% of

utarget
Need to report change and uncertainty of
change (from Guide 34)
Report time-dependent property value
Report time-dependent uncertainty
Could report as equations or as property
value and uncertainty at point of sale.

Stability Usage conditions


Applies when unit of RM can be repeatedly
subsampled within claimed shelf life
Mentioned as a consideration, no
procedures

Characterization - General
Four types of studies (as discussed in G34)
a. Single (primary) method in single laboratory
b. Two or more methods in one or more
laboratories
c. One or more methods in a network of
laboratories
d. Method-specific, operationally defined
property values, using network of laboratories

Characterization - proposed
Three types of studies (combine b&c)
a. Primary method in single laboratory
- Advisable to have independent confirmation method

b. Two or more methods in one or more


laboratories
- Need 5 or more independent data-sets

c. Method-specific, operationally defined property


values, using network of laboratories

Characterization
unresolved issues
What is a primary method?
a method having the highest metrological properties,
whose operation can be completely described and
understood, for which a complete uncertainty statement
can be written down in terms of S.I. units (CCQM)

Combining approaches b & c


Use of robust statistical procedures
Use of same study to characterize RM and
to demonstrate competence of laboratory

Characterization special issues:


Purity CRMs
Purity
Determined directly
Determined by subtracting impurities from 100%
Requires evidence of identity

Characterization special issues:


Secondary CRMs
A material whose values are assigned by
directly comparing candidate CRM with an
already characterized CRM
Reference and candidate must be comparable
Reference must have a link to a primary CRM
Therefore tertiary CRMs can be linked to secondary

Method for validation meets traceability criteria

Then CRM can be characterized in a single


laboratory, using a non-primary method

Characterization special issues:


Identity CRMs
Identity is usually not a measurement result,
but is a conclusion drawn on measurement
results from one or several methods
e.g., DNA sequence

Useful only if error probability is negligible


Slight inhomogeneity and instability should
not change the conclusion
Requires information on the source of the
material and processing steps

Characterization special issues:


Presence/Absence CRMs
A quantitative measurement is evaluated in
a qualitative manner
e.g., value above or below a limit of detection

Advisable to test with all relevant methods


Uncertainty should state the confidence
level of the limit of detection

Characterization special issues:


Ordinal properties
Quantities where the outcome of
measurement puts the result in a certain
ordered class
CRMs will be useful only if measurement
places the value unequivocally
All technically accepted measurements by all
participating labs place material in same class

Characterization special issues:


Qualitative properties
Properties such as color, order, shape, etc.
In some cases these properties have
quantitative forms

Usually a method-defined measurand

Uncertainty
There are some clarifications to current
requirements, but no substantive changes.

Thank you

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