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From reviews of the German edition Especially with a view to the compulsory introduction of quality assurance systems in laboratories for food examination this book will be of great interest. The quality assurance of analytical methods from their development to their application in routine analysis is systematically described. '...This book can be warmly recommended to all analysts as both a textbook and a practice-oriented handbook.' Prof. Dr. A. Montag, Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau '...It offers valuable help for the training of analysts and is unique in the German analytical literature.' '...its goal as a reference source and instruction manual for employees in laboratories and ministries with reference to the strategies of quality assurance in analytical chemistry is exemplarily fulfilled.' W. Landvoigt,?sterr. Chemiezeitschrift