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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Quality in Laboratory and Manufacturing Practice - M323013
Title: Jakost v laboratorní a výrobní praxi
Guaranteed by: Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition (323)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2023 to 2025
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:3
E-Credits: summer s.:3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://kocourev.bluefile.cz/studijni-materialy/
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Tomaniová Monika Ing. Ph.D.
Kocourek Vladimír prof. Ing. CSc.
Interchangeability : N323030
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
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)
Course completion requirements -

Seminar case study and its presentation.

Successful completion of written and oral exams.

Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (31.01.2018)
Literature -

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)
Requirements to the exam -

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)
Syllabus -

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)
Learning resources -

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)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

  • understand basic principles of the quality assurance and quality control tools (QA/QC) in the testing laboratories and food/environmental sampling,
  • document and validate (chemical) analytical methods and to calculate the uncertainty of test results,
  • understand, design and perform procedures used for quality control in analytical / testing laboratories and manufacturing, including statistical process control procedures,
  • assess compliance of test results with specifications - limits, tolerances, etc.,
  • understand principles of Good Hygienic and Good Manufacturing Practice, understand HACCP system and to be able to project, perform and validate effective measures,
  • consider the risks and opportunities associated with the laboratory / production activities (SWOT, FMEA),
  • understand requirements on the competence of testing laboratories as essential prerequisite for their accreditation; requirements on certification of products and management systems,
  • understand principles of food quality and food safety management and food inspection.

Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (13.09.2023)
Registration requirements -

Analytical chemistry. Analysis of food and natural products. Statistics. Food legislation.

Last update: Kocourek Vladimír (13.09.2023)
Teaching methods
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
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