Westbrook, Maine (June 30, 2015) – Artel, the leader
in liquid handling quality assurance, will host the September technical
meeting of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical
Committee 48 Working Group 4, which is developing standards for
micropipettes, precision laboratory syringes and automated liquid
handlers. The group is calling for experts and all relevant stakeholders
who are interested in joining and participating in the meeting.
“This working group provides an excellent opportunity to network with
experts in the field from across the globe,” said George Rodrigues,
Ph.D., senior scientific manager at Artel and convener of the working
group. “We generally have good representation from manufacturers but are
always looking for laboratory users. This is a chance for people to
influence the development of important standards that will be applicable
to their work and adopted globally.”
Interested experts should contact either Rodrigues, grodrigues@artel-usa.com, or Dr. Renata Koerfer, secretary of ISO TC 48, at din@dechema.de.
“The processes for joining an ISO working group differ by country and
we can provide interested experts with guidance on how to go about it,”
said Rodrigues. “All persons who join the working group will receive a
meeting invitation and instructions for registering.”
The Artel-hosted working group meeting will be held September 9, 10
and 11, 2015 in Portland, Maine. The last meeting was held in March 2015
in Lisbon, Portugal and the first took place in Frankfurt, Germany, in
2014. The September meeting will focus on completing revisions to ISO
8655 for micropipettes, which will include the addition of new sections
for electronic, motorized pipettes. Planning will also begin on
calibration standards for precision laboratory syringes, and
recommendations will be reviewed for standardization of volumetric
performance of automated liquid handling systems. The deadline for early
registration at a reduced fee is July 24, 2015.