🇵🇱 OKRĘGOWA STACJA CHEMICZNO-ROLNICZA W POZNANIU PL

PCA AB 317 • Poznań, Poland • 68 methods

Materials & polymersWater & wastewater

OKRĘGOWA STACJA CHEMICZNO-ROLNICZA W POZNANIU is a laboratory accredited by PCA under number AB 317 (Poznań, Poland). Its accreditation scope covers 68 test methods in the following areas: Materials & polymers, Water & wastewater. Test objects include: Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers, Plant material, Mineral and organic soils, Soils and horticultural growing media. Most frequently used techniques: Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS), Gravimetric method, Titrimetric method.

At a glance

  • Accreditation number: PCA AB 317
  • Methods in scope: 68
  • Types of test objects: 9
  • Techniques used: 13
  • City: Poznań, Poland
Accreditation number
AB 317
Accreditation body
PCA
Address
DZIAŁ LABORATORYJNY, ul. Sieradzka 29, 60-163 Poznań
City
Poznań, Poland

What this laboratory tests (9)

Analytical techniques used (13)

Laboratory locations

Accreditation scope — test methods (68)

No. Test object Methodology / Parameters Technique Reference document
Test methods
1 Mineral and organic soils Available copper content
Range (1,0 - 125,0) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-92/R-04017 p. 1, 2, 4 IB.19 edycja 1 z dnia 04.04.2017 r.
2 Mineral and organic soils Available zinc content
Range (2,0 - 125,0) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-92/R-04016
3 Mineral and organic soils pH – in KCl and in H2O
Range 2,0 - 9,0
Potentiometric method PN-EN ISO 10390:2022-09
4 Mineral and organic soils Ammonium nitrogen content
Range (0,08 - 2,50) mg/100 g
Continuous flow analysis (CFA) with spectrophotometric detection PB.50 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
5 Mineral and organic soils Nitrate nitrogen content
Range (0,08 - 2,50) mg/100 g
Continuous flow analysis (CFA) with spectrophotometric detection PB.50 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
6 Mineral and organic soils Element content
Lead (2,0 - 80,0) mg/kg Nickel (0,800 - 32,0) mg/kg Cadmium (0,400 - 5,33) mg/kg Chromium (3,67 - 91,7) mg/kg Copper (1,67 - 66,7) mg/kg Manganese (16,67 - 800) mg/kg Iron (667 - 33000) mg/kg Zinc (3,33 - 200) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PB.14 edycja 15 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
7 Mineral and organic soils Dry matter and water content
Range (0,1 - 99,9) %
Gravimetric method PN-ISO 11465:1999
8 Mineral and organic soils Organic carbon content
Range (0,10 – 50,00) % Organic matter content (calculated)
High-temperature combustion with IR detection PB.99 edycja 2 z dnia 01.09.2021
9 Organic soils Available manganese content
Range (25 - 1000) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-R-04024:1997 p. 1, 2, 3, 7
10 Organic soils Available phosphorus content
Range (12,5 - 1250) mg/100 g P2O5
Spectrophotometric method PN-R-04024:1997
11 Organic soils Available potassium content
Range (4,0 - 200) mg/100 g K2O
Flame photometry method PN-R-04024:1997
12 Organic soils Available magnesium content
Range (6,0 - 400) mg/100 g
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-R-04024:1997
13 Mineral soils Available phosphorus content
Range (1,0 - 125,0) mg/100 g P2O5
Spectrophotometric method PN-R-04023:1996
14 Mineral soils Available potassium content
Range (2,0 - 150,0) mg/100 g K2O
Flame photometry method PN-R-04022:1996+Az1:2002
15 Mineral soils Available magnesium content
Range (1,0 - 40,0) mg/100 g
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-R-04020:1994+Az1:2004
16 Mineral soils Available boron content
Range (0,30 - 5,00) mg/kg
Spectrophotometric method PN-93/R-04018 p. 1, 2, 4
17 Mineral soils Available manganese content
Range (10 - 1000) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-93/R-04019 p. 1, 2, 5
18 Mineral soils Available iron content
Range (100 - 10000) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-R-04021:1994 p. 1, 2, 4 IB.22 edycja 2 z dnia 30.04.2026 r.
19 Mineral soils Element content
Aluminium (100 - 1000) mg/kg Boron (0,50 - 5,00) mg/kg Calcium (200 - 6000) mg/kg Copper (0,5 - 25,0) mg/kg Iron (100,0 - 1000,0) mg/kg Potassium (50,0 - 500,0) mg/kg Magnesium (10,0 - 500,0) mg/kg Manganese (5,0 - 250,0) mg/kg Phosphorus (10,0 - 1000,0) mg/kg Sulfur (5,00 - 100,00) mg/kg Zinc (2,5 - 125,0) mg/kg
Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) PB.100 edycja 3 z dnia 03.07.2026 r.
20 Plant material Element content
Copper (1,00 - 20,0) mg/kg Zinc (2,00 - 200) mg/kg Chromium (0,50 - 10,0) mg/kg Manganese (5,00 - 1600) mg/kg Iron (10,0 - 2000) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PB.22 edycja 11 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
21 Plant material Element content
Lead (0,50 - 15,0) mg/kg Nickel (0,50 - 15,0) mg/kg Cadmium (0,100 - 3,00) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PB.23 edycja 10 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
22 Plant material Content of dry matter and air-dry matter
Range (0,1 - 99,9) %
Gravimetric method PN-88/R-04013
23 Plant material Total nitrogen content
Range (0,30 - 10,00) %
Potentiometric titration method PB.16 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
24 Plant material Phosphorus content
Range (0,20 - 6,00) % P2O5
Spectrophotometric method PB.17 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
25 Plant material Potassium content
Range (0,20 - 8,00) % K2O
Flame photometry method PB.18 edycja 11 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
26 Plant material Calcium content
Range (0,20 - 20,0) % CaO
Flame photometry method PB.18 edycja 11 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
27 Plant material Magnesium content
Range (0,15 - 2,64) % MgO
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PB.19 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
28 Plant material Total sulfur content
Range (0,05 - 1,00) %
Nephelometric method PB.24 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
29 Plant material Nitrate content
Range (10 - 5000) mg/kg
Continuous flow analysis (CFA) with spectrophotometric detection PN-EN 12014-7:2001
30 Plant material Nitrite content
Range (1,5 - 50) mg/kg
Continuous flow analysis (CFA) with spectrophotometric detection PN-EN 12014-7:2001
31 Soils and horticultural growing media pH – in H2O
Range 2,0 - 9,0
Potentiometric method PB.01 edycja 8 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
32 Soils and horticultural growing media Available nitrate nitrogen content
Range (5 - 1000) mg/dm3
Potentiometric method PB.02 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
33 Soils and horticultural growing media Chloride content
Range (30 - 1000) mg/dm3
Potentiometric method PB.03 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
34 Soils and horticultural growing media Salinity
Range (50 - 5000) mg/dm3
Conductometric method PB.04 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
35 Soils and horticultural growing media Available magnesium content
Range (20 - 500) mg/dm3
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PB.05 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
36 Soils and horticultural growing media Available phosphorus content
Range (20 - 500) mg/dm3
Spectrophotometric method PB.06 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
37 Soils and horticultural growing media Available potassium content
Range (10 - 2000) mg/dm3
Flame atomic emission spectrometry (FAES) PB.08 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
38 Soils and horticultural growing media Available calcium content
Range (40 - 4000) mg/dm3
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PB.08 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
39 Liming fertilisers and liming materials Water content
Range (0,10 - 60,0) %
Gravimetric method PN-93/C-87007/15
40 Liming fertilisers and liming materials Calcium oxide content
Range (15,0 - 70,0) %
Titrimetric method PN-93/C-87007/06+Az1:1997
41 Liming fertilisers and liming materials Lead content
Range (10,0 - 200) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-93/C-87007/09 p.4.2
42 Liming fertilisers and liming materials containing magnesium Water content
Range (0,10 - 12,0) %
Gravimetric method PN-91/C-87006/20
43 Liming fertilisers and liming materials containing magnesium Calcium oxide content
Range (15,0 - 60,0) %
Titrimetric method PN-90/C-87006/11 p.4
44 Liming fertilisers and liming materials containing magnesium Magnesium oxide content
Range (0,50 - 25,0) %
Titrimetric method PN-90/C-87006/11 p.6
45 Liming fertilisers and liming materials containing magnesium Lead content
Range (10,0 - 200) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-93/C-87006/14 p.4.2
46 Liming fertilisers and liming materials containing magnesium Cadmium content
Range (1,00 - 20,0) mg/kg
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-C-87006-15:1996 p.4.2
47 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Ammonium nitrogen content
Range (0,40 - 25,0) %
Titrimetric method PN-EN 15475:2009
48 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Nitrate and ammonium nitrogen content according to Devarda
Range (0,40 - 40,0) %
Titrimetric method PN-EN 15476:2009
49 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Total soluble nitrogen content
Range (0,40 - 35,0) %
Titrimetric method PN-EN 15604:2012 p.8.2.1.1, 8.2.1.2 i 8.2.2
50 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Content of phosphorus soluble in acids
Range (0,50 - 55,0) % P2O5
Gravimetric method PN-EN 15956:2011 | PN-EN 15959:2024-05
51 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Content of phosphorus soluble in neutral ammonium citrate
Range (0,50 - 55,0) % P2O5
Gravimetric method PN-EN 15957:2011 | PN-EN 15959:2024-05
52 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Water-soluble phosphorus content
Range (0,50 - 55,0) % P2O5
Gravimetric method PN-EN 15958:2011 | PN-EN 15959:2024-05
53 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Water-soluble potassium content
Range (0,50 - 65,0) % K2O
Gravimetric method PN-EN 15477:2009
54 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Total magnesium content
Range (0,10 - 5,00) %
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-EN 15960:2011 | PN-EN 16197:2013-05
55 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Water-soluble magnesium content
Range (0,10 - 5,00) %
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-EN 15961:2017-02 | PN-EN 16197:2013-05
56 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Total sulfur content
Range (1,00 - 20,0) %
Gravimetric method PN-EN 15960:2011 | PN-EN 15749:2023-01 met. A
57 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Water-soluble sulfur content
Range (1,00 - 20,0) %
Gravimetric method PN-EN 15961:2017-02 | PN-EN 15749:2023-01 met. A
58 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Total calcium content
Range (2,00 - 40,0) % CaO
Titrimetric method PN-EN 15960:2011 | PN-EN 16196:2013-05
59 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Water-soluble calcium content
Range (2,00 - 35,0) % CaO
Titrimetric method PN-EN 15961:2017-02 | PN-EN 16196:2013-05
60 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Total boron content
Range (0,010 - 10,0) %
Spectrophotometric method PN-EN 16964:2018-03 | PN-EN 17041:2018-07
61 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Water-soluble boron content
Range (0,010 - 10,0) %
Spectrophotometric method PN-EN 16962:2018-03 | PN-EN 17041:2018-07
62 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Total copper, iron, manganese, zinc content
Range (0,005 - 10,0) %
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-EN 16964:2018-03 | PN-EN 16965:2018-03
63 Mineral (inorganic) fertilisers Content of water-soluble copper, iron, manganese, zinc
Range (0,005 - 10,0) %
Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) PN-EN 16962:2018-03 | PN-EN 16965:2018-03
64 Natural, organic, organic-mineral fertilisers, composts Content of water and dry matter
Range (0,10 - 99,9) %
Gravimetric method PB.28 edycja 9 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
65 Natural, organic, organic-mineral fertilisers, composts Phosphorus content
Range (0,04 - 12,0) % P2O5
Spectrophotometric method PB.29 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
66 Natural, organic, organic-mineral fertilisers, composts Potassium content
Range (0,05 - 15,0) % K2O
Flame photometry method PB.30 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
67 Natural, organic, organic-mineral fertilisers, composts Total nitrogen content
Range (0,05 - 10,0) %
Titrimetric method PB.88 edycja 6 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
68 Natural, organic, organic-mineral fertilisers, composts Organic matter content
Range (1,00 - 99,9) %
Gravimetric method PB.90 edycja 8 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.

Reference standards (62)

PB.01 edycja 8 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.02 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.03 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.04 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.05 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.06 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.08 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.100 edycja 3 z dnia 03.07.2026 r.
PB.14 edycja 15 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.16 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.17 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.18 edycja 11 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
PB.19 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.22 edycja 11 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
PB.23 edycja 10 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
PB.24 edycja 9 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.28 edycja 9 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
PB.29 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.30 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.50 edycja 10 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.88 edycja 6 z dnia 01.04.2021 r.
PB.90 edycja 8 z dnia 29.06.2021 r.
PB.99 edycja 2 z dnia 01.09.2021
PN-88/R-04013
PN-90/C-87006/11 p.4
PN-90/C-87006/11 p.6
PN-91/C-87006/20
PN-92/R-04016
PN-92/R-04017 p. 1, 2, 4 IB.19 edycja 1 z dnia 04.04.2017 r.
PN-93/C-87006/14 p.4.2
PN-93/C-87007/06+Az1:1997
PN-93/C-87007/09 p.4.2
PN-93/C-87007/15
PN-93/R-04018 p. 1, 2, 4
PN-93/R-04019 p. 1, 2, 5
PN-C-87006-15:1996 p.4.2
PN-EN 12014-7:2001
PN-EN 15475:2009
PN-EN 15476:2009
PN-EN 15477:2009
PN-EN 15604:2012 p.8.2.1.1, 8.2.1.2 i 8.2.2
PN-EN 15749:2023-01 met. A
PN-EN 15956:2011
PN-EN 15957:2011
PN-EN 15958:2011
PN-EN 15959:2024-05
PN-EN 15960:2011
PN-EN 15961:2017-02
PN-EN 16196:2013-05
PN-EN 16197:2013-05
PN-EN 16962:2018-03
PN-EN 16964:2018-03
PN-EN 16965:2018-03
PN-EN 17041:2018-07
PN-EN ISO 10390:2022-09
PN-ISO 11465:1999
PN-R-04020:1994+Az1:2004
PN-R-04021:1994 p. 1, 2, 4 IB.22 edycja 2 z dnia 30.04.2026 r.
PN-R-04022:1996+Az1:2002
PN-R-04023:1996
PN-R-04024:1997
PN-R-04024:1997 p. 1, 2, 3, 7