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The quality of products and services (including laboratory services) is crucial to the success and credibility of manufacturers/providers and, even more so, to their users and society as a whole. This includes parameters that are important for health and environmental protection, as well as for consumer and market protection. Testing laboratories must incorporate systematic quality management into their strategy and actively manage it, as must food business operators. The quality of test performance and interpretation is particularly important in the control of drugs and medicinal products and in forensic sciences. Knowledge of internationally recognized systemic requirements for quality management and rules for their practical application is fundamental at all management levels. This course aims to introduce students to the issues of quality management in testing and research laboratories and other testing facilities that deal with the assessment of the quality and safety of food, feed, medicines, and the control of environmental pollution, forensic analysis, etc. Similarly, some of these quality management principles are also applied in the production and distribution of food or medicinal products. The course includes an introduction to the legal and technical standards necessary to ensure quality control and safety in food production and the procedures for achieving this in practice. The lectures and exercises present examples and case studies that are also used for practical exercises.
Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (21.01.2026)
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Seminar case study and its presentation. Successful completion of written and oral exams. Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (31.01.2018)
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R: Relevant EU legal acts (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/), and technical standards (EN, ISO) recommended in lectures, R: General Guidelines on sampling. CAC/GL 50-2004. available from https://www.fao.org/uploads/media/Codex_2004_sampling_CAC_GL_50.pdf. A: B. Magnusson and U. Örnemark (eds.) Eurachem Guide: The Fitness for Purpose of Analytical Methods – A Laboratory Guide to Method Validation and Related Topics, (2nd ed. 2014). ISBN 978-91-87461-59-0. Available from www.eurachem.org. A: Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement. ISO, Geneva (1993). (ISBN 92-67-10188-9) (Reprinted 1995: Reissued as ISO Guide 98-3 (2008), also available from http://www.bipm.org as JCGM 100:2008) D: Analytical quality control and method validation procedures for pesticide residues analysis in food and feed. Guidance document SANTE/11312/2021. Available from www.eurl-pesticides.eu/docs/public/N D: IFS Standard for auditing product and process compliance in relation to food safety and quality (version 8), IFS Berlin 2023. Available from www.ifs-certification.com.
Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (13.09.2023)
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Within the extent of the syllabus. The condition of the exam is also a credit and participation in classes of min 65%. Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (21.01.2026)
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1. Quality and safety management systems in manufacturing and in testing laboratories, management models (ISO 9001 and 22000, GLP, ISO 17025). 2. International standardization in testing; product and process certification, forensic processes (ISO 21043). 3. Concepts and definitions used by analytical laboratories, accuracy of test results, reliability in qualitative analysis. 4. Selection, validation, and verification of analytical methods, performance characteristics; standardization of testing methods, GMP (ICH) requirements. 5. Calibration, measurement traceability, reference materials, uncertainties of test results. 6. Quality control in analytical laboratories, statistical tools for quality control (SPC). 7. Audits in quality system; control of documents and records, corrective measures, process improvement. 8. Interlaboratory comparisons, proficiency tests, transfer and implementation of analytical methods. 9. Expression and interpretation of test results, evaluation of compliance with specifications, interpretation of results in forensic sciences. 10. Laboratory information systems, protection of data and samples; confidential information, impartiality. 11. Sampling of agricultural and food commodities and environmental components, sampling plans, sampling uncertainty; sampling in forensic sciences. 12. Risk management: testing laboratories, testing of medicines and preparations, forensic laboratories; risk analysis and critical control points in food processing (HACCP). 13. Integrity in laboratory control processes and forensic analysis; food authentication, adulteration, abuse of psychotropic and narcotic substances. 14. Official control of food and other products, state supervision; reference laboratories; forensic examination, reporting and testimony. Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (23.01.2026)
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https://e-learning.vscht.cz/ http://www.cai.cz http://www.eurachem.cz/metodicke-listy.php http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ http://www.szpi.gov.cz/ Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (13.09.2023)
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Analytical chemistry. Analysis of food and natural products. Statistics. Food legislation. Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (13.09.2023)
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| Activity | Credits | Hours | ||
| Obhajoba individuálního projektu | 0.1 | 2 | ||
| Účast na přednáškách | 0.9 | 24 | ||
| Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi | 0.6 | 18 | ||
| Práce na individuálním projektu | 0.5 | 15 | ||
| Účast na seminářích | 0.6 | 18 | ||
| 3 / 3 | 77 / 84 | |||
