NF EN ISO 5667-3
Water quality - Sampling - Part 3 : preservation and handling of water samples
This document specifies general requirements for sampling, preservation, handling, transport and storage of all water samples including those for biological analyses. It is not applicable to water samples intended for microbiological analyses as specified in ISO 19458, ecotoxicological assays, biological assays and passive sampling as specified in the scope of ISO 5667‑23.This document is particularly appropriate when spot or composite samples cannot be analysed on site and have to be transported to a laboratory for analysis.
This document specifies general requirements for sampling, preservation, handling, transport and storage of all water samples including those for biological analyses.
It is not applicable to water samples intended for microbiological analyses as specified in ISO 19458, ecotoxicological assays, biological assays and passive sampling as specified in the scope of ISO 5667‑23.
This document is particularly appropriate when spot or composite samples cannot be analysed on site and have to be transported to a laboratory for analysis.
ISO 5667-3:2012 establishes general requirements for sampling, preservation, handling, transport and storage of all water samples including those for biological analyses. It is not applicable to water samples intended for microbiological analyses as specified in ISO 19458, ecotoxicological assays, biological assays, and passive sampling as specified in the scope of ISO 5667-23. ISO 5667-3:2012 is particularly appropriate when spot or composite samples cannot be analysed on site and have to be transported to a laboratory for analysis.
This document specifies the general requirements for sampling, preservation, handling, transport and storage of all water samples for physicochemical, chemical, hydrobiological and microbiological analyses and determination of radiochemical analytes and activities. Guidance on the validation of storage times of water samples is provided in ISO/TS 5667-25. This document is not applicable to water samples intended for ecotoxicological assays, biological assays (which is specified in ISO 5667-16), passive sampling (which is specified in ISO 5667-23) and microplastics (which is specified in ISO 5667-27). This document is particularly appropriate when samples cannot be analysed on site and have to be transported to a laboratory for analysis.
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1 Domaine d'application
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2 Références normatives
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3 Termes et définitions
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4 Échantillonnage et chaîne de surveillance
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5 Réactifs et matériel
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6 Récipients
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7 Manipulation et conservation des échantillons
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8 Transport des échantillons
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9 Identification des échantillons
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10 Réception des échantillons
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11 Stockage des échantillons
- Annexe A Techniques de conservation des échantillons
- Annexe B Préparation des récipients
- Annexe C Protocole utilisé dans les études de validation hollandaises
- Bibliographie
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