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Joint Research CentreDIRECTORATE-GENERAL

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Confidence in medical laboratory results

Standardisation of the methods used in medical laboratories and assur-ing the quality of diagnostics results, is a global effort. IRMM has car-ried out extensive research to develop and produce suitable referencematerials for validating those methods and calibrating instruments. Asa result, over 40 different enzyme and protein reference materials areavailable, including those for tumour markers, and markers for infec-tious diseases and cardiac damage. Genetic testing introduces new de-mands for IRMM to respond to.

The medical laboratory results of e.g. a blood test must be interpretedto give information about a patient's health. To do this the doctor con-sults information on normal ranges of such results. Establishing thosenormal ranges requires that the diagnostics results from the differentlaboratories are comparable and correct. In addition the quality of theindividual results has to be high enough to enable the doctor to makethe right decisions.

Reliable measurements protect the environment

Many decisions based on chemical measurements of soils, sediments,water or air are taken every day to assess the amount of polluting sub-stances. The reliability of these testing results must be known and canbe assessed by using reference materials. Environmental samples, how-ever, represent a huge variety of different combinations of substancesto be analysed and the matrices in which they are embedded. One of theaims of the IRMM reference materials development team is to widen therange offered to the analytical chemists. For example, the IRMM cata-logue contains samples of mercury species in tuna fish and estuarinesediment.

To ensure comparability of monitoring data IRMM also organises inter-national measurement evaluation programmes, which give the partici-pants a unique possibility to link their measurement results to the high-est quality measurements in Europe.

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Joint Research CentreDIRECTORATE-GENERAL

institute for reference materials and measurementsinstitute for reference materials and measurements

Confidence in medical laboratory results

Standardisation of the methods used in medical laboratories and assur-ing the quality of diagnostics results, is a global effort. IRMM has car-ried out extensive research to develop and produce suitable referencematerials for validating those methods and calibrating instruments. Asa result, over 40 different enzyme and protein reference materials areavailable, including those for tumour markers, and markers for infec-tious diseases and cardiac damage. Genetic testing introduces new de-mands for IRMM to respond to.

The medical laboratory results of e.g. a blood test must be interpretedto give information about a patient's health. To do this the doctor con-sults information on normal ranges of such results. Establishing thosenormal ranges requires that the diagnostics results from the differentlaboratories are comparable and correct. In addition the quality of theindividual results has to be high enough to enable the doctor to makethe right decisions.

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THE JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

THE INSTITUTE FOR PROSPECTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL STUDIES

IPTS’ CORE COMPETENCES and POLICY AREAS

Knowledge for Growth

Competitiveness and Sustainability

Information Society

Agriculture, Rural Development and Life Sciences

IPTS: FACTS and FIGURES

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❝ robust science for policy making ❞

http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is a Directorate-General of the Euro-pean Commission. It comprises seven research Institutes located in five EU Member States (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain). With around 2,700 staff, the JRC plays an active role in helping create a safer, cleaner, healthier and more competitive Europe.

The mission of the Joint Research Centre is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, develop-ment, implementation and monitoring of European Union policies. As a service of the European Commission, the Joint Research Centre functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Union. Close to the policy-making process, it serves the common interest of the Member States, while being independent of special interests, whether private or national.

The JRC is allocated an annual budget of €320 EUR million for direct support to EU institutions from the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). It earns up to a further 15% from competitive activities.

The main customers of the JRC are the Commission's policy Direc-torate-Generals, although substantial work is performed for the Member State institutions and authorities, European Parliament and Council, Community and Executive Agencies.

More information can be found at:

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COMPETITIVENESS and SUSTAINABILITY

IPTS provides support to a range of customers in the European Commission engaged in policy-making on long-term, high-priority environmental issues, including:

• Climate change mitigation policies, using energy modelling and scenario analysis

• Implementation of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan

• Integrated Product Policy and EU environmental thematic strat-egy on waste and recycling

• Energy and transport related technology scenarios

The Institute also manages the European Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau, a service in support of the implementation of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive.

The Environmental Action Programme (EAP) is the environmental road-map up to 2010 to achieve the environmental goals of the EU’s Sustain-able Development Strategy. EAP is about finding ways of improving our quality of life without causing harm to the environment, future genera-tions or the people of both the developed and developing world.

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❝ Making the most of ICT ❞INFORMATION SOCIETY

The Information Society (IS) is a key project for Europe’s future eco-nomic growth, for maintaining its global competitiveness, for the creations of jobs and for ensuring and increasing its quality of life.

The main political project of the European Commission - the Lisbon Agenda - acknowledges the potential of the Information Society to contribute to:

• Growth and employment, as Information and Communication Technologies are a high growth sector in its itself (6-8% of gross domestic product) but also have important impact on growth in all other sectors of the economy;

• Solidarity, equality and quality of life, as Information Society Technologies offer considerable potential for inclusion, bet-ter governance, future health and healthcare services, realising higher standards of quality of life and life long learning.

The i2010 policy initiative is based on 3 main pillars, laying down the European Commission’s goals for the development of the Infor-mation Society:

• Completion of a Single European Information Space, which pro-motes at an open and competitive internal market for information society and media services

• Strengthening innovation and investment in information and com-munications technologies (ICT) research

• Fostering inclusion, better public services and quality (through the use of ICT)

Through its techno-economic research projects IPTS is currently supporting each of these pillars.

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COMPETITIVENESS and SUSTAINABILITY

IPTS provides support to a range of customers in the European Commission engaged in policy-making on long-term, high-priority environmental issues, including:

• Climate change mitigation policies, using energy modelling and scenario analysis

• Implementation of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan

• Integrated Product Policy and EU environmental thematic strat-egy on waste and recycling

• Energy and transport related technology scenarios

The Institute also manages the European Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau, a service in support of the implementation of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive.

The Environmental Action Programme (EAP) is the environmental road-map up to 2010 to achieve the environmental goals of the EU’s Sustain-able Development Strategy. EAP is about finding ways of improving our quality of life without causing harm to the environment, future genera-tions or the people of both the developed and developing world.

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