BS 1427:2009
Current
The latest, up-to-date edition.
Hardcopy , PDF
English
31-12-2008
Foreword
Section 1: General
1.1 Scope
1.2 Normative references
1.3 Terms and definitions
1.4 Information on MCERTS performance standards and
test procedures for water test-kits
Section 2: Physical and chemical test methods: general
information
2.1 Health and safety
2.2 Training, supervision and associated needs
2.3 Test facilities
2.4 Sampling, sampling preservation and sample pre-treatment
considerations
2.5 Selection and application of test methods
2.6 Apparatus and equipment
2.7 Reagents
Section 3: Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Causes of "unfit-for-purpose" results
3.3 Confidence interval considerations
3.4 Method validation (assessing method performance
characteristics)
3.5 Routine quality control
3.6 Target test-kit requirements
3.7 Concentration ranges of methods
3.8 Interferences
Section 4: Titrimetric methods for use in a designated
room/area testing facility
4.1 Determination of alkalinity
4.2 Determination of calcium and total hardness
4.3 Determination of chloride
4.4 Determination of free carbon dioxide
4.5 Determination of nitrite
4.6 Determination of sulfate
4.7 Determination of sulfite
4.8 Determination of zinc
Section 5: Instrumental methods
5.1 Determination of dissolved oxygen
5.2 Determination of electrical conductivity
5.3 Determination of pH
5.4 Determination of total dissolved solids
5.5 Determination of turbidity
5.6 Ion selective electrodes (ISEs)
Section 6: Some designated room/area testing facility methods
6.1 General
6.2 Determination of oxidized nitrogen
6.3 Determination of biological oxygen demand
6.4 Chemical oxidation demand with dichromate
6.5 Chemical oxidation with manganese(III)
6.6 Chemical oxidation with permanganate
6.7 Total organic carbon
6.8 Total nitrogen
6.9 Determination of metals
6.10 Determination of organic compounds
Annexes
Annex A (informative) - Guidance on training, supervision and
associated needs
Annex B (informative) - Example of a documented test-kit method
and associated sampling protocol for a colorimetric
method
Annex C (informative) - Typical expected result confidence
intervals from a given QC solution, from a range of
test-kits from two manufacturers
Annex D (informative) - An example of target test-kit requirements
for a COD test-kit used in a designated room/area testing
facility
Annex E (informative) - An example of target test-kit requirements
for a free and total chlorine test-kit used on-site at
the sampling location
Annex F (informative) - An example of routine QA/QC documentation
for a COD test
Annex G (informative) - An example of routine QA/QC documentation
for a free and total chlorine test
Annex H (informative) - An example of a typical Shewhart control
chart and a blank Shewhart control chart
Annex I (informative) - Test-kit methods overview
Annex J (informative) - Summary of test-kits
Annex K (informative) - Indication of availability of visual test
sticks for semi-quantitative determinations
Bibliography
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