Regarding maturity, although the results were consistent between participating labs, the narrow scale of maturity measurement creates an obstacle to utilizing the information on a commercial basis. However as with SFI, round trials will continue with the option of including maturity readings so as to permit further analysis, but neither SFI nor maturity results are used in laboratory rankings. Data for the interlaboratory variation of SFI and maturity from RT 2009-3 are available on the ICAC web site.
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