The aim of Proficiency Testing or Interlaboratory Trials is to achieve standardisation of laboratory performance. The large number of participants in the ENERSOL trials provide an extensive body of data against which participating laboratories can assess their performance.
The ENERSOL Interlaboratory Trial of Condom Testing Laboratories, which was originally carried out for the World Health Organisation in the early 1990s, started with 31 participants in 1995 and since 2001 has had more than 60 participants each year. The ENERSOL condom trial covers all tests in major international standards and the WHO condom Specification, and wherever practical - new and proposed tests are included. A glove trial has been operating since 1998, and the number of participants also increases each year. These trials are available to all laboratories who test condoms and gloves, including manufacturers, government regulatory authorities and independent laboratories. Participation also assists those laboratories and manufacturers that already have, or are seeking laboratory accreditation or certification, where participation in such trials is a requirement of accreditation.
Confidentiality of results is a feature of the ENERSOL Interlaboratory trials, lab codes assigned to each participant to identify its own results only.
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E-Mail: interlab-trials@enersol.com.au
Last updated: 7th July 2010
CONDOM TESTING LABORATORIES
PARTICIPANTS: To access the files required for the trial, click HERE
Invitations have been sent for the 2010 Annual Maintenance and Calibration program. Participation in the condom trial is FREE for AMC participants. If you would like to join the trial or for more information, please contact us.
Samples have been sent, if they do not arrive within the first two weeks of July, please contact ENERSOL
To follow-up on your 2009 participation please contact us.
For more information on the 2010 condom trial or to be included on the invitation list please contact us.
GLOVE TESTING LABORATORIES
PARTICIPANTS: To access the files required for the trial, click HERE
The glove trial is nearing completion as the data analysis is underway. Reports are due in the coming weeks.
To follow-up on your 2009 participation please contact us.
For more information on the 2010 glove trial or to be included on the invitation list please contact us.
