Dear colleagues,

the results of the 17th Needle/Leaf Interlaboratory Test are available on the FFCC homepage. The qualification reports can be downloaded from the ringtest web-interface. You had to login here with your lab code and your password. The following ICP-Forests laboratories (=laboratories analysing monitoring samples from the vegetation period 2014) had to re-qualify for some parameters:

A47: C

A60: Pb

F06: S, P, Mg

F24: P, K, C

F28: Mg

F29: Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu, Cd

Please, keep in mind that the requalification for ICP-Forests laboratories  must be finished before 1st of September 2015.

The registration for the 18th Needle/Leaf Interlaboratory Test 2015/2016 is open now. If you want to participate and have no labcode or/and password - please, contact me per email (alfred.fuerst@bfw.gv.at).

I wish you a prosperous new year

Alfred Fürst