Emerging Issues in Developing Countries
Emerging Issues in Developing Countries
This series seeks to inform readers, explore new ideas, and promote discussion on themes related to developing countries and emerging analytical communities. Articles in this series are available from <www.iupac.org/publications/ci/indexes/emerging-issues.html>.
Standardization of Analytical Approaches and Analytical
Capacity-Building in Africa
by Robert Maybury, Walter Benson, and David Moore
The 2003 World Bank book entitled Standards and Global Trade:A Voice for Africa (edited by John S. Wilson and Victor O. Abiola; ISBN 0-8213-5473-6) reports that trade can be a powerful driver of a country’s growth, but in many African countries there are severe barriers to exporting commodities. One such barrier is the poor performance of many African laboratories when testing commodities for export. For a commodity to be exported, its levels of pesticide, heavy metal residue, and other contaminants must be determined through analytical tests. The results of this testing must not only comply with various international standards,but the accuracy and reliability of the results must also be accepted internationally. Yet, few testing laboratories in Africa are able to obtain such trustworthy test results.
A project of the International Organization for Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD)*—in collaboration with IUPAC and several other international partners— is assisting analytical laboratories in Africa, initially in Uganda and Kenya, with upgrading their performance in testing export commodities.
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*See May-June 2002 CI or <www.iocd.org>.
For the project announcement, see Mar-Apr 2005 CI or <www.iupac.org/projects/2004/2004-017-1-500.html>.
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- Masthead
- From the Editor
- Contents
- IUPAC Within and Without
- Chemistry Takes Center Stage in Marine Science
- A Discussion About the International Year of Physics
- Lessons from Mother Nature
- The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier:
- The Canadian National Committee for IUPAC’s Travel Awards Program–A Success Story
- Emerging Issues in Developing Countries
- Young Chemists to the 41st IUPAC World Chemistry Congress
- The XML Gold Book Online
- IUPAC Elections for the 2008–2009 Term
- Industry and IUPAC Meeting Halfway
- IUPAC President Attends the International Chemistry Olympiad
- InChI 1.01
- Dewen Zeng Receives the 2006 Franzosini Award
- Biophysico-Chemical Processes Involving Natural Nonliving Organic Matter in Environmental Systems
- Trace Elements Analysis: Role of Grain Size Distribution in Solid Reference Materials
- The Chemistry Clearing House as a Way to Better Chemistry Teaching
- Teaching High-Temperature Materials Chemistry at the University Level
- Provisional Recommendations
- Standards, Calibration, and Guidelines in Microcalorimetry. Part 2. Calibration Standards for Differential Scanning Calorimetry (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Chemical Terminology at Your Fingertips
- Free Information Resources for Chemists–Part 3
- Solubility Phenomena
- Green Chemistry: A Tool for Socio-Economic Development and Environmental Protection
- Polymers and Organic Chemistry
- Polymers for Advanced Applications
- NanoTech Insight ‘07
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- Biophysics
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