ASTM-E3330 Standard Guide for Contents of Documentation and Statistical Treatments for Reference Materials for Metals, Ores, and Related Materials

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Scope

1.1 This guide is designed to explain and to clarify documentation that accompanies an RM or a certified reference material (CRM). It explains the contents of certificates of analysis for CRMs and product information documents for RMs, based on existing international standards and guides. It briefly touches on the minimum requirements for a label attached to the CRM/RM unit or unit container and to the package containing the unit or unit container.

1.2 This guide provides some basic guidance on calculation of consensus values and uncertainty estimates for CRMs and RMs with examples of approaches commonly used by national metrology institutes and suggestions for sources of information.

1.3 Units—The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard, whenever applicable. Values can be traceable to other higher-order reference systems, including Rockwell Hardness, pH, and other systems defined by an international standard or peer-reviewed publication.

1.4 Contents—Sections and topics within this guide are enumerated below:

Section

Title

1

Scope

2

Referenced Documents

3

Terminology

4

Summary of Guide

5

Significance and Use

6

Contents of a Certificate of Analysis or Reference Material Documentation

7

Labels

8

Technical and Statistical Evaluations

9

Procedures for Consensus Value Calculations

10

Estimation of Uncertainty

11

Reporting Values and Uncertainty Estimates

12

International System of Units

13

Keywords

Appendix X1

Working Near Zero

Appendix X2

Working Near 100 %

Appendix X3

Censored Values

Appendix X4

Examples of Language for Sections of a Certificate of Analysis

1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

1.6 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.

Significance and Use

5.1 This guide is intended for use by developers of RMs and CRMs for the metals and mining industries.

5.2 The guidance is related to uniform procedures and requirements and is intended to prevent the proliferation of widely varying documentation practices, definitions, and terminology. Where the statements in this guide are made as imperatives, it is because the stated practices are fundamental to chemical metrology, not to CRM/RM development.

5.3 The material in this guide is intended to supplement and to clarify the contents of ISO Guide 31 and to provide guidance specific to the needs of the metals and mining industries.

5.4 The documents described in this guide are intended to contain the minimum amount of information required for a user to understand the material, to help a user judge the quality of the product, and to help a user employ it in appropriate ways. Neither this guide nor resultant documents are meant to be encyclopedic.

5.5 Because this document is a standard guide, it is intended to educate those who are involved in laboratory operation, quality system development and maintenance, reference material development, and accreditation of laboratory operations within the scope of a quality system. It must be understood by all parties that the elements of this guide discuss optional practices having numerous choices for accomplishment and documentation. However, this guide does not constitute requirements for assessment and accreditation. An obvious example is statistical evaluation for consensus value and uncertainty calculations, which can take many forms with no single, correct choice for any given case.

5.6 When using this guide, CRM developers will set goals for the material under development, such as target uncertainties for homogeneity and for overall coverage intervals for assigned values. These choices are based on the intended uses of a CRM. The material, property values, and their uncertainties may or may not meet the set goals. These decisions are made using expert judgement, and there are no exact right or wrong, passing or failing outcomes that should be imposed by outside authorities. The quality of a CRM or RM will be judged by the prospective user, who needs it to use with their measurement process.

5.6.1 An example of a requirement a CRM user may have is whether the uncertainty of a certified value is fit for the purpose of using the value as a calibration point. CRM users and producers can obtain information from standard test methods or from laboratories doing relevant analyses.

5.6.2 Although the ISO Committee on Reference Materials (ISO TC334) has designated all CRMs and other forms of RMs as being named reference materials, this guide uses the convention the certified reference materials are called CRMs and reference materials having no certified values are named RMs. This practice is consistent with Guide E2972.

Keywords

alloys; certificate of analysis; certified reference material; chemical metrology; concentrates; consensus calculation; metals; metrological traceability; minerals; ores; product information sheet; quality system; reference material; uncertainty estimate; validation;

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Document Number

ASTM-E3330-22

Revision Level

2022 EDITION

Status

Current

Modification Type

New

Publication Date

April 20, 2022

Document Type

Guide

Page Count

17 pages

Committee Number

E01.22