30 Seconds of Info – QAQC: Always use a ‘multiplot’ to review Standards assay results

This week’s 30 Seconds of Info is from Paul Blackney – Principal Consultant. QAQC is one of Paul’s areas of expertise so he offered this advice:

Always use a ‘multiplot’ to review Standards assay results: employing a ‘multiplot’ to depict assays received for a set of Standards, often allows inadvertent Standards swaps to be readily identified. Reviewing the same data in isolation on individual control charts may otherwise result in a swap being identified as a ‘failure’ event when in fact the standard is a valid test.

Paul’s contact details are: pblackney@snowdenoptiro.com