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The BCR is a research programme of the European Communities having the broad aim of improving accuracy and measurement harmony in areas of concern at Community level. Much of the work is directly relevant to the removal of trading and other obstacles as is necessary for the achievement of a single European market by 1992.
The presentation provides an overview of the sector of the programme concerned with Reference Materials (RMs) for food and agricultural analyses.
Summarises are given of activities for inorganic, trace organic and nutritional analyses, for calibration of rapid methods (NMR, NIR, XRF and Immuno-assay techniques) and technological measurements (industrial quality of cereals, food colour, water-sorption and detection of fraudulent addition of sugar during wine making by NMR). An alphabetic listing of analytes and properties studied during the programme is given.
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Belliardo, J.J., Wagstaffe, P.J. BCR reference materials for food and agricultural analysis: an overview. Z. Anal. Chem. 332, 533–538 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00472637
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