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Laboratory testing can be the most expensive part of an environmental project. Ensuring data quality is relatively easy and protects this significant investment of time (planning, sampling, processing) and money (laboratory testing). Plan Ahead It’s been said to always “begin with the end in mind.” For environmental projects this is usually in the form of [...]

For many, an environmental laboratory is a black box - samples go in, and numbers come out. But there are some basic questions that each data user should ask. Is My Sample Representative of the Site? Did the Laboratory Use a Representative Sub-Sample? Is the Data Subject to Any Errors or Bias? Obtaining reliable environmental analytical [...]