title: [The EFS metrology: From the production to the reason].
abstract: In order to answer statutory requirements and to anticipate the future needs and standards, the EFS is committed, since a few years, in a process of harmonization of its metrology function. In particular, the institution has opted for the skills development by internalizing the metrological traceability of the main critical quantities (temperature, volumetric) measurements. The development of metrology so resulted in a significant increase in calibration and testing activities. Methods are homogenized and improved through accreditations. The investment strategies are based on more and more demanding specifications. The performance of the equipments is better known and mastered. Technical expertise and maturity of the national metrology function today are assets to review in more informed ways the appropriateness of the applied periodicities. Analysis of numerous information and data in the calibration and testing reports could be pooled and operated on behalf of the unique establishment. The objective of this article is to illustrate these reflections with a few examples from of a feedback of the EFS Pyrénées Méditerranée. The analysis of some methods of qualification, the exploitation of the historical metrology in order to quantify the risk of non-compliance, and to adapt the control strategy, analysis of the criticality of an instrument in a measurement process, risk analyses are tools that deserve to be more widely exploited for that discipline wins in efficiency at the national level.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de métrologie, EFS Pyrénées-Méditerranée, 392, avenue du Professeur-J.-L.-Viala, 34184 Montpellier cedex 4, France. Electronic address: jean-marc.reifenberg@efs.sante.fr.
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Reifenberg
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de métrologie, EFS Pyrénées-Méditerranée, 392, avenue du Professeur-J.-L.-Viala, 34184 Montpellier cedex 4, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Riout
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de métrologie, EFS Pyrénées-Méditerranée, 392, avenue du Professeur-J.-L.-Viala, 34184 Montpellier cedex 4, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leroy
authors.affiliation: Direction Médicale-DGD-MSQR, contrôle qualité et évaluation des PSL, EFS services centraux, 20, avenue du Stade-de-France, 93218 La-Plaine-Saint-Denis cedex, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Begue
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001793:Blood Preservation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D002138:Calibration; D002498:Centrifugation / Q000295:instrumentation; D015925:Cryopreservation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D004209:Disposable Equipment / Q000592:standards; D004389:Durable Medical Equipment / Q000592:standards; D004869:Equipment Safety / Q000592:standards; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D006813:Humidity; D012034:Refrigeration / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013696:Temperature; D062125:Thermometry / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D014894:Weights and Measures / Q000592:standards*; D000094902:Blood Banking / Q000379:methods
keywords: Accreditation; Accréditation; Analyses de risques; Calibration; Criticality; Criticité; Essais; Metrology; Métrologie; Periodicities; Périodicités; Regulation; Risk analyses; Réglementation; Testing; Étalonnages