SEALNET | Asian Soil Laboratory Network: 3rd meeting. Manila, Philippines, 23 - 27 September 2019.

1. Strengths and Weaknesses of
SEALNET Member Laboratories
Group IV
3rd SEALNET Meeting
23rd September 2019

2. Moderator and participating countries
in Group IV
• Indonesia
• Myanmar
• Thailand
• Japan
• Cambodia
moderated by Rob de Hayr from ASPAC,
Australia

3. Significant strengths and weaknesses
in Indonesia
Strengths
• Good national laboratory
networking
Opportunities
• Inadequate staff force

4. Significant strengths and weaknesses
in Myanmar
Strengths
• Implementing Good
Laboratory Practices (GLPs)
in Soil and Plant Analysis
Laboratory (SPAL)
• Well developed GLPs during
the lab development
program collaborated with
University of New England
through ACIAR project
• SPAL certified for ISO:9001-
2015 QMS
Opportunities
• Inadequate networking of
laboratories in Myanmar
• Intermitted
counterchecking of results
of unknown samples among
two laboratories under
Department of Agricultural
Research
• Limitation in qualified staff

5. Significant strengths and weaknesses
in Thailand
Strengths
• Good quality assurance and
quality control programs
• Good national laboratory
networking excluding
private laboratories
Opportunities
• Insufficient budget for
calibrating laboratory
equipment

6. Significant strengths and weaknesses
in Japan
Strengths
• Implementation of excellent
housekeeping, hygiene and
safety procedures
Opportunities
• Weak in national laboratory
networking

7. Significant strengths and weaknesses
in Cambodia
Strengths
• Staff strength is well enough
except when sample entry
is very large
Opportunities
• Only one laboratory in
Cambodia and therefore no
networking is possible
nationwide
• Limited budget for lab
• Building up of human
capacity and modernized lab
equipments

8. Common weaknesses among
laboratories concerned
• Inadequate national laboratory networks
except in Thailand and Indonesia
• Limited number of qualified staff
• Human resource development program for lab
staff
• Budget constraint for regular maintenance
and calibration of lab equipment
• Infrastructure building

9. Thank You!