
Stop analytical errors before they start—master the first 40 critical food testing mistakes from sample receipt to extraction.
Mistakes 1–40: A Practical Guide to Preventing Analytical Errors, Improving Data Quality, and Producing Reliable Food Safety Results in Sample Receipt, Extraction, Standards, Reagents, and Reference Materials.
The first book follows the analytical chain from the moment a food sample reaches the laboratory through sample preparation, homogenization, extraction, clean-up, reagents, standards and reference materials.
Each mistake in this book is designed as a practical reference entry. The reader can work through the mistakes sequentially for training or move directly to a relevant mistake when troubleshooting a live analytical problem. The recurring structure—what the mistake is, why it happens, what it does to the result, how to detect it, how to correct it and how to prevent recurrence—makes the material useful at the bench as well as during technical review.