Dear colleagues,

the results of the 19th Needle/Leaf Interlaboratory Comparison Test are available on the FFCC homepage. Your 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 2016) had to re-qualify for some parameters:

A60: P and Mn

A62: Ca, Mg and K

F06: Mg

F18: N

F33: C and Fe

Please, keep in mind that the requalification for ICP-Forests laboratories must be finished before 1st of September 2017.

The registration for the 20th Needle/Leaf Interlaboratory Test 2017/2018 is open up from 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