Guide

Routine Pipette Testing with a Laboratory Balance

Guide

5 Top Tips and an SOP

Routine Pipette Testing with a Laboratory Balance
Routine Pipette Testing with a Laboratory Balance

ISO 8655-10:2024 provides guidance on the routine testing of pipettes and other piston-operated volumetric apparatus (POVA) using a laboratory balance. This guide provides an overview of routine pipette testing, presents five practical tips to ensure that the routine testing is carried out correctly, and offers a standard operating procedure (SOP) that can be adapted and used in any laboratory.

Five key tips are presented, covering:

  1. Environment
  2. Training
  3. Pipetting technique
  4. Laboratory balance
  5. Weighing vessel and evaporation

 

Guidance on how to assess your pipette test results is also included.