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Stakeholderscontinued from previous pagelegislation, consumer protection, product andoccupational safety.EFNDT The European Federation for Non-Destructive Testing was founded in May1998 in Copenhagen at the 7th EuropeanConference for Non-Destructive Testing(ECNDT). Full membership is open tonational NDT societies, one per country.Associate membership is open world-wide.EFNDT aims at establishing a Europeansystem of personnel qualification by EFNDTin the sense of creating a partnership forsafety and quality. EFNDT offers a route tomore than 40 NDT Societies (including allthose in Europe), more than 20,000 membersof these individual national societies,more than 1,000 businesses in NDT whichare corporate (company members) of thenational societies, more than 190,000 NDTpersonnel certificates which are recognizedunder the EFNDT Multilateral RecognitionAgreement.For more information please contact AstridSilvia Grunert, EU Affairs Manager CEOCInternational: astrid.grunert@ceoc.com orconsult the related web sites: www.ceoc.com,www.eurolab.org, www.efndt.org.7th Workshop on Proficiency Testing in AnalyticalChemistry, Microbiology and Laboratory MedicineIstanbul (Turkey), [3]-4-6 October 2011The EURACHEM Proficiency TestingWorking Group (www.eurachem.org), in co-operation with CITAC (www.citac.cc) and EQALM (www.eqalm.org),is organising the 7th event of a series ofWorkshops addressing current practice andfuture directions of proficiency testing (PT)and external quality assessment (EQA) inanalytical chemistry, microbiology andlaboratory medicine.VenueThe Workshop will be held in Istanbul, anhistoric city where east meets west. Themonth of October is a pleasant time of theyear to enjoy scenery and historic sites, someof which dates back 8000 years. There aregood airline connections from most majorinternational cities to Atatürk Airport, atthe European side of the city. There is also asecond international airport, Sabiha GökçenAirport which is in the Anatolian side ofIstanbul. The Workshop will be held in PolatRenaissance Hotel, close to Atatürk Airport(www.polatrenaissance.com).Technical ProgrammeThe Workshop will be structured to includetraining sessions, key-note lectures, shortpresentations, working group discussionsand poster sessions, to enable interactiveparticipation and cross-fertilisation of ideas.The official language of the Workshop willbe English. Invited lectures and acceptedpresentations/posters will be considered,through peer-review, for publication as fullpapers in a special issue of Accreditation andQuality Assurance (Springer Verlag).Training SessionsTraining sessions, which are opento Workshop participants, will be on“Establishing traceability and uncertainty ofassigned values and assisting participantsto assess/estimate their measurementuncertainty using PT results”.Lectures and Working Group Topics• Implementing the requirements of ISO/IEC17043 by PT/EQA Providers• Accrediting PT/EQA Providers to ISO/IEC17043• Establishing acceptability criteria inmicrobiology PT/EQA schemes• Evaluating participant performance inqualitative PT/EQA schemes• Establishing PT/EQA schemes indeveloping countries• Pre and post analytical aspects in EQAWho should attend?The Workshop will provide an excellentopportunity for PT/EQA scheme organisers,and end-users of PT/EQA (laboratories,accreditation bodies, regulators and thelaboratories’ customers) to come togetherand share their views.RegistrationSubmission of abstracts, registration andhotel reservations is now open via theWorkshop website.Workshop SecretariatPhone: +90 312 210 4889Fax: +90 312 210 5668Web: www.labkar.org.tr/EURACHEM2011Ender OkandanChair of Local Organising CommitteePetroleum Research Centre, Ankara, TurkeyBrian BrookmanChair of Scientific CommitteeLGC Standards Proficiency Testing, Bury, UK40 Issue 38 | October 2010