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26th CITAC Members' Meeting in Paris, France on Sunday April 10, 2011


Congratulations to the authors of the CITAC Award 2010 winning papers (in no particular sequence), published in Accred. Qual. Assur. 2011:

Takeshi Saito, Toshihide Ihara, Masayoshi Koike, Shinichi Kinugasa, Yoshinori Fujimine, Kazutoshi Nose, and Tetsuya Hirai. "A new traceability scheme for the development of international system-traceable persistent organic pollutant reference materials by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance", Accred Qual Assur, (2009) 14:79-86
 

Garritt L. Page and Stephen B. Vardeman. "Using Bayes methods and mixture models in inter-laboratory studies with outliers",  Accred. Qual. Assur. 2010, Volume 15, Number 7, Pages 379-389
 

Arsene CG, Henrion A, Diekmann N, Manolopoulou J, Bidlingmaier M. "Quantification of growth hormone in serum by isotope dilution mass spectrometry", Anal Biochem. 2010 Jun 15;401(2):228-35. Epub 2010 Mar 10.


The 25th Members’ Meeting was held on Sunday, 11 of April, 2010 at LNE (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais) in Paris, France.

 

Ten members or representatives attended the meeting. Several invited speakers and observers also participated, giving a total of nineteen participants.

 

2010 was a year of election to renew the Executive Committee: Dr Wynand Louw was elected Chairman, Dr Philippe Charlet was elected Vice-Chairman and Dr Wolfhard Wegscheider was elected Treasurer.

 

Three new members have been elected: - Dr. William F. Koch, Chief Metrology Officer at the U.S. Pharmacopeia Convention, USA - Daniel W. Tholen, Statistical Consulting Services, USA, - Dr Samuel Wunderli, METAS, Switzerland.

After the meeting, Samuel Wunderli was also elected CITAC Secretary.

 

The meeting covered the classic topics and a specific focus was given on the CITAC Award nominations. The winners presented their awarded papers and then they received the diploma from Wynand Louw.

Lecture by Francesca Pennecchi on the topic of the winning paper Comparison of Calibration Curves Using the Lp Norm published in Accred Qual Assur (2009) 14:587-592, by Luca Callegaro et al. · 

Lecture by Hanspeter Andres on the topic of the winning paper Metrological Aspects of Glucose Measurements by Biosensors published in Electroanalysis (2009) 21:1984-1991, also by Samuel Wunderli. · 

Lecture by Olaf Rienitz on the topic of the winning paper A Convenient and Economic Approach to Achieve SI-traceable Reference Values to be Used in Interlaboratory Comparisons Concerned with Water Analysis published in Accred Qual Assur (2007) 12:615–622, D. Schiel, B. Guttler, M. Koch and U. Borchers

"The picture presents the Members attending the CITAC Meeting"

 

CITAC Executive Officers Elected for 2010-2013

(The election results were adopted by the 25nd CITAC Members' Meeting in Paris, France, 11.4.2010)

CITAC Chair:    Dr Wynand Louw        National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA), P/Bag X 34, 
Lynnwood Ridge 0040, SOUTH AFRICA, 
Tel   + 27 12 841 4227, Fax   + 27 12 841 2131
Email wlouw@nmisa.org
Acting
CITAC Vice Chair and
Award Coordinator: 

Dr Samuel Wunderli

METAS, Sektion AC, Chemie, Lindenweg 50, CH-3003 Bern-Wabern, SCHWEIZ
Tel +41 31 32 33 383
Fax +41 32 32 33 210
Email Samuel.Wunderli@metas.ch
CITAC Past-Chair:     Dr Ilya Kuselman   National Physical Laboratory of Israel (INPL), Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL 
Tel   + 972 2 5661856, Fax   + 972 2 652 07 97 
Email ilya.kuselman@moital.gov.il
CITAC Secretary:   

Dr Samuel Wunderli

METAS, Sektion AC, Chemie, Lindenweg 50, CH-3003 Bern-Wabern, SCHWEIZ
Tel +41 31 32 33 383
Fax +41 32 32 33 210
Email Samuel.Wunderli@metas.ch
CITAC Treasurer and
Internet Administrator: 
Prof Dr Wolfhard Wegscheider   General and Analytical Chemistry, University of Leoben
Franz-Josef Strasse 18, A-8700 Leoben, AUSTRIA
Tel   + 43 3842 402 7000, Fax   + 43 3842 402 7012 
Email wegschei@unileoben.ac.at