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Sixty laboratories of five different countries participated in a large-scale interlaboratory comparison test for the determination of halogenated hydrocarbons in water. Participants used their in-house method with 44 laboratories applying head space GC ECD analysis and 5 using liquid/liquid extraction. A set of two artificially produced samples was prepared; the halogenated hydrocarbons investigated were trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, trichloromethane, tetrachloromethane, 1,1-dichloroethylene, dichloromethane, dibromochloromethane, bromodichloromethane, 1,2-dichloroethane and tribromomethane. The procedure of sample preparation, storage and distribution was monitored by an extensive quality assurance system including homogeneity tests, stability tests, and trend analysis of the submitted data. The analytical results submitted by the participants exhibited RSD values of up to 35% and outlier rates of up to 19%. The percentage of false positive and false negative results was at the highest 12% for selected substances. Recovery rates varying from 86% to 106% proved the correctness of the analytical results submitted by the participants and showed that the procedure developed in this study for sample preparation and distribution is well suited for the performance of large-scale interlaboratory comparison tests of halogenated hydrocarbons in water.
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Received: 7 December 1998 / Revised: 23 March 1999 / Accepted: 24 March 1999
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Apfalter, S., Krska, R., Linsinger, T. et al. Interlaboratory comparison study for the determination of halogenated hydrocarbons in water. Fresenius J Anal Chem 364, 660–665 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160051409
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160051409