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Validation, verification and determination of measurement uncertainty for Microbiologists -a QuoData webinar series providing expert knowledge for analytical quality assurance.
In recent years, a number of norms and standards have been developed to define approaches and procedures for quality assurance of microbiological test methods.
The highly relevant series of standards ISO 16140 and ISO 19036, are intricately examined in a comprehensive webinar series curated by QuoData, specifically tailered for laboratories in the field of food microbiology.
The novel coronavirus has directly or indirectly affected everyone’s lives forcing people to embrace a new normal. Many experts predict that the pandemic is likely to have a continued impact, far beyond the ongoing distancing restrictions. Moving forward, QuoData believes that adapting and tweaking everyone’s personal and business decision-making process, by factoring different socio-economic aspects is the key.
QuoData‘s Data Scientists have launched a blog that biostatistically evaluates the situation regarding the spread of the coronavirus in an international context. There are regular updates on the development of the pandemic, including QuoData’s tailored prognoses: https://corona.quodata.de/index.php#english
Via Twitter the channel @QuoData_en QuoData also informs about updates of the Corona blog.
The new ISO/IEC 17025:2017 extends requirements for private or public testing laboratories in the field of food microbiology as well as the users of quantitative microbiological test methods with regard to analytical quality assurance. In response to this situation, QuoData has designed a workshop specifically for quality assurance of microbiological methods.
In order to ensure the highest level of health protection for all EU citizens, an EU funded Joint Action for health security has been launched. Entitled Joint Action SHARP (Strengthened International Health Regulations and Preparedness in the EU), the project is coordinated by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland, and co-coordinated by the Robert Koch-Institut (RKI), Germany.
QuoData GmbH has launched a blog to provide biostatistical analysis of the situation regarding the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) in an international context. QuoData's statistics experts monitor the development of the pandemic and provide results of their analyses at regular intervals.
QuoData presented its tools and services at Arab Health 2020 in Dubai. From 27 - 30 more than 55,000 visitors attended one of the most influential events for healthcare professionals in the MENA region.
On Friday, January 24th 2020, QuoData invited the Drupal Community at its Dresden premises as part of Drupal Global Contribution Weekend 2020. Visitors were warmly welcomed with complimentary snacks and drinks, further livening up the mood.
This Drupal All-day event was filled with energy and enthusiasm. By joining the event participants had the opportunity to gain knowledge from their peers, whilst sharing their own skills, allowing everyone to contribute to Drupal.
One of the world’s largest trade fair for healthcare and medicine takes place from 27th to 30th January at the Dubai World Trade Centre. As an exhibitor of the official joint stand “Saxon Pavilion”, QuoData will be attending the fair.
QuoData is pleased to announce its annual workshop series for 2020. As a service provider in the field of analytical quality assurance, QuoData regularly offers a number of workshops for QA experts.
The workshops give participants an opportunity to dive deeper into different topics regarding the latest developments in international standardization, as well as to get to know the advanced approaches of QuoData.
For 2020 the workshop schedules are as follows:
From 17th to 18th October, QuoData will visit Ljubljana, Slovenia to attend the EQALM symposium – a meetup of European external quality assurance organizers in laboratory medicine.
During the symposium QuoData scientist Kapil Nichani will introduce how artificial intelligence can be utilized in PT for prognosis of future laboratory performance. A novel easy-to-interpret score developed for qualitative PT/EQA data will also be presented.
The 2019 international PROLab workshop was successfully hosted by QuoData on 25-27 September at its Berlin premises. International participants from Turkey, Serbia, Germany and Indonesia attended this fruitful 3-day in-depth workshop.
The workshop covered various topics on interlaboratory studies - method validation as well as proficiency tests in compliance with the relevant standards such as ISO 13528:2015, ISO 5725 and ISO/IEC 17043.
A joint workshop on validation of microbiological methods with FDA and IFSH
Together with U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Institute for Food Safety and Health, QuoData held the second training course on validation of qualitative microbiological methods from 18 to 20 September at the University of Maryland as part of the joint workshop series.
From 9 to 13 September 2019, QuoData’s head of IT, Christian Bläul led two in-house training courses on the use of the QuoData flagship software “PROLab”, which is developed specifically for planning and evaluation of proficiency tests (PT) during his visit to Toronto, Canada.
As part of QuoData’s ongoing efforts to improve quality assurance and performance assessment of laboratories through proficiency testing, QuoData participated at PT Conf in Oradea, Romania, taking place from September 10th to 13th.
The seventh international proficiency testing conference brought together an important and vital group of researchers and PT professionals. It also provided QuoData with an opportunity to meet face-to-face in order to share knowledge and insights with other experts.
QuoData is thrilled to kickstart a new project called HERMES (Highspeed Erfassung und Regelung Mikrophysiologischer Eigenschaften mit einer intelligenten Steuerung), along with the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS), the Medical Faculty of TU Dresden (Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology) and
The QuoData experts actively participate in upcoming international conferences. After the ArabLab in March and the Eurachem Workshop in May, further contributions are planned for which preparations are underway: analytica Lab Africa (in Johannesburg, South Africa), IAFP 2019 (in Louisville, Kentucky, USA) and the International Proficiency Testing Conference (PT conf, in Oradea, Romania).
From May 20th to 21st QuoData’s Data Scientists will be in Tartu, Estonia, for the Eurachem Workshop 2019 to present one of its latest research projects in the field of non-targeted methods.
QuoData's IT experts appreciate the Drupal content management system and framework and use it for a variety of unique web applications. Drupal is open source and thrives on the commitment of many software developers who continue to develop it further.
On behalf of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI), international proficiency tests for the identification of gunshot residues (GSR) have been carried out for many years.
Since 2009, QuoData has been organizing and evaluating the annual proficiency tests of the GSR quality system on behalf of ENFSI independently.