Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Isn't it an NBB or EPA requirement to submit one sample a year? Keith that is a great document, but that QC recommendation is only a recommendation. There isn't particularly an enforcable law about how often companies run analysis, I dont' think... mark At 04:57 PM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:

[biofuel] Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-05 Thread Keith Addison
Isn't it an NBB or EPA requirement to submit one sample a year? Keith that is a great document, but that QC recommendation is only a recommendation. There isn't particularly an enforcable law about how often companies run analysis, I dont' think... mark At 04:57 PM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-04 Thread Kristen Stremlau
I believe that the ASTM requirements don't stipulate how often you have to do testing. The local (well sort of) WVO plant here in CA (Imperial Western Products) sends out an analysis with every batch, they're apparently a batch plant. The most recent guideline that I have found for how

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
that is a great document, but that QC recommendation is only a recommendation. There isn't particularly an enforcable law about how often companies run analysis, I dont' think... mark At 04:57 PM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: The most recent guideline that I have found for how often to QC

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-04 Thread glenne1949
Some many years ago I worked in a chem lab at a large oil refinery, running various lab tests on petroleum products, and, as I remember, the procedure was to check every batch of product (e.g., viscosity, flash point, color, etc.) whether it was lubricating oil, grease, or whatever. One

Re: [biofuels-biz] Fwd: quality control, customer service, and big industry

2003-06-04 Thread girl mark
The odd thing is that it is the big guys (two of them apparently in the past few weeks) who are having obvious quality control problems, and that they're not admiting it (or catching the problem) until some customer/retailer points it out (both World Energy and another producer who just