Achieving Accurate BOD Results: What Your Questions Revealed
Real‑World Secrets to Consistent, Defensible Results
This webinar focuses on translating real laboratory challenges into practical strategies for improving BOD accuracy, consistency, and data defensibility. By addressing common issues, it helps labs understand why results vary and how to troubleshoot them effectively.
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) testing is a cornerstone of water quality analysis, yet many laboratories continue to experience variability and uncertainty in day to day execution. This presentation takes a practical, insight driven approach by focusing entirely on real questions submitted by laboratories during a previous session.
Rather than presenting a traditional step by step review of Standard Methods, this session explores recurring challenges that impact BOD accuracy, consistency, and defensibility. Topics are structured around common pain points identified across labs, including dilution water preparation, seed selection and performance, GGA recovery interpretation, dissolved oxygen (DO) measurement and calibration, and appropriate dilution and bottle selection.
Through these real-world scenarios, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of why BOD results vary, how biological factors influence outcomes, and how seemingly minor procedural differences can significantly affect data quality.
Key takeaways
- BOD variability is expected - control it through consistency
- Preparation (water, seed, handling) drives results
- GGA validates system performance, not samples
Who should attend
This webinar is designed for Analytical scientists, Laboratory managers and Quality assurance managers.
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Speaker: Christy Abbas, PhD (Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Waters ERA)
Christy has been with Waters ERA for six and a half years. Her career spans roles at an instrument manufacturer, a biopharmaceutical laboratory, and a mining company. She earned her PhD in Applied Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines.
Throughout her career, Christy has supported the nuclear, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, as well as academia. Drawing on her background in analytical chemistry, product development, marketing, and sales, she is focused on expanding Waters ERA’s product portfolio to better meet evolving customer needs.
