Results of NYU participation in testing of draft ANSI N13.30: certification of in vivo and in vitro bioassay laboratories

A test program conducted by Pacific Northwest Laboratories is designed to determine a suitable method for national certification of bioassay laboratories in the United States. This program was developed in response to the American National Standards Institute draft document, ANSI N13.30. The certification standard is designed to test the accuracy and precision of a variety of in vivo and in vitro bioassay measurement techniques currently in use at operational health physics programs in this country. We have participated in the testing of measurements of mixed fission and activation productions in the whole body, transuranics deposited in the lungs, fission products in the urine, and I-131 and I-125 measurements in the thyroid. This section summarizes the results of our measurements for the first test rounds of the standard. 1 tab