Andrew Wendell loves to keep track of data. That includes data about his own laboratory.
Wendell is the senior chemist and quality assurance/quality control officer for ClearWater Laboratory in Newport, Maine, “One of the things I actually enjoy the most, and one of the things I get the most kudos for from my accreditors, is control charts,” Wendell says.
“It’s my way of tracking data — the quality control data, blanks, duplicates, standards, spikes. I get the most pleasure when I see that the laboratory is in control with the data that we generate on a daily basis.”
For Wendell, in control means the result
