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4th Mission Report _KE3_Jan –Feb 2013worked well in other countries. This appeared to be caused by a Windows problem and advice wassubmitted by a computer colleague to try to overcome this, however this is still being investigated.It was recommended that as all the relevant staff had been trained during the mission and the Laboratoryalready had internal AQC software, it should be relatively easy to establish AQC’s for most of the majorparameters. These should be established soon prior to the joint field survey, the KE3 would be availableto provide any further support to facilitate this by distance training.Hydrobiological AnalysisPresent Irakli Kordzaia (NEA Senior Hydrobiologist)Irakli had previously received extensive training on sampling for BMIs by the Finnish HydrobiologicalInstitute (SYKE) and had been audited on his skills, which were considered to be excellent.He has a working knowledge of AQUEM and ASTERIX Software and was able to use this to determinebiological index by the relatively simple BMWP system, which does not require the BMI species results.However to calculate the EQR one needs to include other advanced biotic indices that do require theidentification of the species. He requested further training and assistance for determining the specieslevel, which should include assistance from BMI experts and also a study/training tour at a EuropeanCentre of ExcellenceTraining WorkshopsThe formal regional workshop was held on 5th February. This covered the following topicsi. Introduction to Laboratory Accreditation 17025.ii. Production of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).iii. Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).iv. Introduction to Analytical Quality Control, Precision and Accuracy.v. Practical Demonstration of Internal AQC system used in Hydromet, Moldovavi. Validation of Analytical Methods.vii. Practical Demonstration of Method Validation Software used by Hydromet Moldovaviii. An introduction to the processing techniques and quality assurance used for Hydrobiologicalanalysis at the Academy of Sciences in UkraineIx An introduction to hydrobiological software (ASTERIX and AQUA BIOBASE), which are used at theAcademy of Sciences in Ukraine for improving quality assuranceThe full agenda is shown in Appendix 2. There were 19 delegates that attended (Appendix 1) and was veryinteractive indicating that the main points were understood well.Marina Arabidze, Head of Environment Pollution Department, requested that additional training shouldbe submitted to the staff who were unable to attend. Therefore a local training workshop on internalquality control was also submitted by KE3 to the following seven analysts.Maka Khvedeliani, Main ChemistNino Vasadze, Main ChemistLali Salamashvili, Main ChemistMarina Chigitashvili, Main ChemistKetevan Kvatashidze, Senior ChemistAnna Natriashvili, Senior MicrobiologistEka Qitoshvili, Senior Chemist.Page 12 of 36