First NENALAB Meeting, 9-11 June 2020 (online)

1. Central Laboratory Testing
(CTL)
United Arab Emirates
Ayeda Matar

2. Laboratory profile-CTL
Facilities Notes
Surface area of the laboratory
(in m2)
3821 m2 More two location in Abu
Dhabi and Al Ain
Number of rooms in the
laboratory
14 section Inorganic- organic- micro-
molecular biology-
Radiation-
environmental….
Staff Notes
Number of laboratory staff 184
Qualification of laboratory
staff (e.g. university degree)
Bachelor, Master
and PhD holder
Is laboratory staff regularly
trained? If yes, how often?
Yes, yearly

3. Picture of the lab

4. Laboratory profile
Analysis performed Number of tests
analysed per year (AD)
Notes (Al Ain Lab)
Chemical 158,680 68,488
Biological 37,788 19,244
Note: our LIMS system does not count samples numbers because the sample distributed in different units it count the number of test in each units.

5. We need standard and harmonized procedure
related to different categories of soil (agriculture,
sediments, industrial …) for the following subjects:
• Sampling procedure for chemical and
microbiological test.
• Samples preservation.
• Pre-treatment before analysis.
• Validation procedure since the difficulty of
founding PT or CRM in such type of test.
• Interpretation of results.
Laboratory needs

6. Our expectations on GLOSOLAN and NENALAB are?
To provide electronic data base include the:
• Standard and reference used in soil testing.
• PT and CRM soil providers.
• Pool of expert to sharing knowledge and
experience.
• Latest issues of soil and research.
Expectations from GLOSOLAN

7. Thanks for your attention