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Passive samplers intercalibration exercises 2010
Registration dead line: 25th of January 2010
Identification of the participant

Institute:……………………………………………………………………………………

Address:……………………………………………………………………………………

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CP:……………………City:…………………Country:…………….....

Address to send back passive samplers: (only for foreign participants, and if different from

the above address)

Address:……………………………………………………………………………………

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...... CP:……………………City:…………………Country:…………….....

Name of the referent person for all correspondences:…………………………………

Position:……………………………..:………..……………………………Fax:………

e-mail:…………………………………………

Intercalibration exercise(s) chosen by the participant
The laboratory mentioned above will participate in the following exercise(s):
Designation (site / molecules / dates) 1 / Passive sampler used 2 / Inscription 3
Charente River (Beillant, France): Pesticides / 15 days exposure time / Date of deployment: 27th of May, date of retrieval: 10th of June /
Ternay on Rhône River (near Lyon, France): PAH / 21 days exposure time / Date of deployment: 10th of June, date of retrieval: 1st of July /
Ternay on Rhône River (near Lyon, France): Metals /7 days exposure time / Date of deployment: 10th of June, date of retrieval: 1st of July /
Thau Lagoon (marine water spot, Hérault, South of France): Pesticides / 15 days exposure time / Date of deployment: 26th of April, date of retrieval: 10th of May /
Thau Lagoon (marine water spot, Hérault, South of France): PAH / 21 days exposure time / Date of deployment: 26th of April, date of retrieval: 17th of May /
Thau Lagoon (marine water spot, Hérault, South of France): Metals / 7 days exposure time / Date of deployment: 26th of April, date of retrieval: 3rd of May /

1 : necessity to be present for the deployment and retrieval, except for foreign participants

2 : to be precised

3 : to be quoted (or not)

For foreign participants:venue on site for deployment: YesNo venue on site for retrieval: Yes  No 

Comments:……………………………………………………………………………………….

Molecules analysed by the participant
The laboratory mentioned above will analyse the following molecules:

(please cross out the non analysed molecules)

Metals: Cd, Ni, Pb, Zn, Cu, Mn, Co, Cr

PAHs: naphthalene, acenaphtylene, acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(ghi)pérylene, dibenzo(ah)anthracene, indenopyrene

Pesticides: atrazine, simazine et DEA / DIA, diuron, isoproturon, linuron, DCPU / DCPMU, alachlor, acetochlor, metolachlor

General informations on this(ese) intercalibration exercise(s)

1/ Registration is free but participants will have in charge:

- their own passive samplers (3 that will be exposed in triplicate + 1 as the field blank),

- the system to deploy their passive samplers, the analyses of the target pollutants in their own passive samplers,

- for the French participant: the cost to come on site to deploy and retrieve their passive samplers,

- for the foreign participant: the shipping fee to send to reference laboratories and to get back their passive samplers and deployment systems.

2/ Passive samplers will be exposed during 7 days for metals, 15 days for pesticides and 21 days for PAHs.

3/ For foreign participants: if not present on site for deployment and/or retrieval, necessity to send a protocol that describes precisely the deployment and retrieval of passive samplers.

4/ Quality controls:

1 standard solution will be sent to all participants to be directly analysed. For practical reasons, we need to know the injection solvent used for each participant. Please precise yours for:

analyses of pesticides:…………………………………………………………………

analyses of PAHs: ……………………………………………………………………

analyses of metals: ……………………………………………………………………

5/ Transmission of the results form participants to the organizing Committee:

A result form will be available on the website The results shall be reported electronically on this website with respect to the requested units and the number of digits.An individual password will be allocated to each participant.

6/ Data valorization: the identity of participant will be kept confidential when processing data (a code number will be attributed). The results from this intercalibration exercise will be published in a scientific report written in English and that mentions the list of the expert participating laboratories.

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