Quality Assurance & Quality Control

This Quality Assurance and Quality Control Data Standard (QA/QC) identifies quantitative statistics and qualitative descriptors that are used to interpret the degree of acceptability or utility of data to the user. The standard provides a common set of data components and data elements to specify Quality Control elements that may be acquired during field or laboratory analysis. These data components and data elements provide a reusable template for Quality Control Information. This standard does not establish a new reporting requirement for the regulated community or new data collection requirements for US EPA programs. It does however require that information exchanges of quality control information conform to the standard once US EPA and its partners adopt and implement the standard.

• Quality Assurance and Quality Control Data Standard