Recommendations to Australian Industry

 It is important that Australian labs are participating in future CSITC Round trials. Our results show that we are up there with the best labs. I also believe they will get better over time with CCAA’s ongoing development of BMP standards for instrument testing. Australia is the only country that compares its own results of all instruments that participate in CSITC testing which is analysed by Rene van der Sluijs and sent to each lab. It is also pleasing to note that repeatability between CCAA instruments improved for all properties in 2008 for CCAA check test program.

 While commercial tolerances for trade and arbitration have been put on hold it would be good to analyse CCAA labs to ensure we

are within the specs suggested by Axel.

 Further bales should be sent to participate in future CSITC round trials

 Instrument Colour difference between HVI 100 and HVI 900 models. This was an issue but not reported this time. I will check with Axel to see if differences are still