First National Inter-comparison Circuit for the identification and sorting of macrozoobenthic species in marine sediments

The First National Inter-comparison Circuit for the identification and sorting of macrozoobenthic species in marine sediments organized by the National Center for the ISPRA Laboratories Network (CN-LAB), from the Biology area and the Metrology area, is held from 14 to 16 October 2019 at the Benthos Ecology Laboratory of the ISPRA headquarters of Castel Romano.

Currently, the inter-comparison circuit is addressed  at the ARPA / APPA laboratories indicated by the Network of Environmental Agency Referents to support the organization of inter-laboratory circuits (RR-TEM IV / 01 - Three-year Programming SNPA 2019-2020).

At this first edition, have participated ARPA Puglia, ARPA Veneto, ARPA Friuli Venezia Giulia, ARPA Lazio, ARTA Abruzzo, Arpa Toscana. The tests, through the tools of objective evaluation of the operators' performances and the comparison between operating methods, aims to a wider activity of harmonization at the level of SNPA technical structures, of the measurement procedures in the biological field with specific reference to the sorting and identification of marine macrozoobenthos.