Conducting Interlaboratorial Between Organized Business Network as an Alternative to Proof of Quality Assurance Seed Analysis Laboratories

Abstract

Conducting interlaboratory is an important tool for proving the quality assurance ofanalyzes. The objective of this technical report is to analyze the effectiveness of the realization of seed analysis of interlaboratory by forming cooperation networks.The method used was Case Study. The initiative came from a laboratory seeds of a pubic company research, which is implementing the ISO / IEC 17025: 2005. This and otherseed laboratories, other subsidiaries of the same company, aims to accreditation by the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - INMETRO. Together theyformed a network of cooperation and conducted an interlaboratory. The analysis performed was soybean germination test. The methodology used and calculations followed that determine the Rules for Seed Analysis of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply. With the completion of this interlaboratory, laboratories managed to check the conformity of their results and meet the requirements regarding the quality assurance of results. The organization of this interlaboratory has highlighted the possibility of holding other interlaboratory between laboratories organized in a network of cooperation, scope of similarity within the national territory.