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All analytical data related to environmental chemistry
is extremely complex. Analytical methods for the evaluation
of environmental samples must be flexible enough to
permit their use upon a wide variety of matrices and
analytical systems. This flexibility leads to considerable
inconsistency between laboratories citing the same source
methods, and often promotes accidental laboratory errors
during sample preparation and analysis. In field sample
collection and handling operations the process can
be equally unpredictable. Additionally, various regulations
and programs from state and federal agencies involving
analytical method modifications and reporting requirements
often complicate matters even further. Many times engineers
and labs involved in the collection and analysis operations
are given conflicting instructions, which may also result
in unusable data. To make matters worse, even when laboratories
perform analyses correctly, upon properly prepared,
collected, and handled samples, the resulting data may
be completely unusable or unsupportable due to physical
or chemical interferences.
Manual data validation operations are often used upon
high-profile environmental data collection efforts (such
as EPA Superfund, etc.) to verify the usability and
correctness of the reported data for the specific quality
needs involved in each project. Such manual review tasks
can be extremely expensive and time consuming, and are
often performed only upon a relatively small portion
of the collected data. Data owners confidently store
un-reviewed environmental data for years. To their dismay,
they frequently find the data to be unusable when it
is finally retrieved and closely investigated during
litigation or regulatory compliance support operations.
Because of the intricacies involved in such data management
operations, Integrate is developing an innovative system
of automated data verification tools to rapidly identify
such sources of analytical data loss. This system is
called ValidateOnline. It is inexpensive, easy to use,
and can be tailored to suit virtually any user’s
needs.
The Validate Online system uses customizable electronic
data monitoring programs to evaluate standardized Electronic
Data Deliverable (EDD) submissions provided from each
laboratory involved in an environmental project. These
programs can be configured to correspond to virtually
any combination of method, regulatory, and reporting
requirements and modifications that could be described
within a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP). The
submitted data can then be evaluated for both analytical
and regulatory compliance in a fraction of the time
and cost that the same functions could be performed
manually.
For more information, contact
Integrate Sales.
Corporate Sales
(225) 214-9746
sales@terrabase.com
Corporate Headquarters
7117 Florida Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Voice: (225) 930-9970
Fax: (225) 930-9980
info@terrabase.com
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