Description & Results of the 2007 NIST/NOAA Interlaboratory Comparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in Marine Mammal Tissues

Published

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

John Kucklick, Rebecca Pugh, Aurore Guichard, Michele M. Schantz, Stephen Wise, Teresa Rowles

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administrations Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (NOAA/MMHSRP), conducts annual interlaboratory comparison exercises for the determination of chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (PCBs), & trace elements in marine mammal tissues. These exercises provide one mechanism for laboratories to evaluate their measurement quality & comparability for these constituents in marine mammal tissues. In the 2007 exercise, 21 data sets were submitted by 14 laboratories on requested organohalogen compounds in marine blubber & serum or fatty acids in marine mammal blubber. The materials distributed for the 2007 exercise included SRM 1945 Organics in Whale Blubber, SRM 1958 Human Serum (Fortified), a homgenized blubber control material Marine Mammal Quality Assurance Exercise Homogenate VIII (Homogenate VIII) from a female pilot whale and Marine Mammal Control Material 1-Serum (MMCM1-serum) derived from an adult male California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). This report includes the results reported by the paricipating laboratories, combined consensus data results, & summary statistics for each analyte in the samples. The numerical indices used to assess laboratory performance are also discussed.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 7642

Report Number

7642

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

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NIST Pubs

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Keywords

blubber, fatty acid, interlaboratory exercise, marine mammal, organochlorine pesticide, PCB, serum

Citation

Kucklick, J. , Pugh, R. , Guichard, A. , Schantz, M. , Wise, S. and Rowles, T. (2010), Description & Results of the 2007 NIST/NOAA Interlaboratory Comparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in Marine Mammal Tissues, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=904101 (Accessed September 9, 2024)