TY  - JOUR
T1  - A General Approach to Accreditation of Environmental Laboratories in Turkey
AU  - Akan, Perihan
AU  - Testik, Ozlem Muge
PY  - 2018
DA  - June
Y2  - 2018
DO  - 10.19072/ijet.410094
JF  - International Journal of Engineering Technologies IJET
JO  - IJET
PB  - İstanbul Gelisim University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-0104
SP  - 103
EP  - 107
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - In this study, the accreditation of environmental parameters and types of laboratoriesaccredited by ISO 17025 Standard were compared. In Turkey, environmentallaboratories were classified as public, private and university laboratories.Furthermore, environmental parameters considered in this study are waterquality parameters and air quality parameters. In current study, 43 waterquality parameters in university and 47 water quality parameters in public andprivate institutions were examined with regard to accredited laboratories inTurkey. Accredited water quality parameters in public and private institutionas different from universities are Total Solid, Ammonia/Ammonia Nitrogen, TotalNitrogen, and Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen. As for air quality parameters, thenumber of air quality parameters accredited in public and private institutionsis approximately twice as air parameters accredited in universities (42 and 26,respectively). The most accredited water parameter is pH, with total of 65,where 44 of them are private, 11 are public and 10 are university laboratories.Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Suspended Solid (SS) are placed in the secondorder with total of 56. Here, 39 private, 10 public and 7 universitylaboratories are accredited in terms of COD and 40 private, 10 public and 6university laboratories are accredited in terms of SS. Conductivity is nextremarkable parameter with total of 53 institutions (37 private, 8 public and 8university laboratories). In air parameters, the most accredited one is the SO2,with total of 52 (49 private, 2 public and 1 university laboratory).
KW  - Laboratory accreditation
KW  - environmental quality parameters
KW  - ISO 17025
KW  - quality management system
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.19072/ijet.410094
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/510071
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