{"term":{"id":"08056","title":"assessor","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - assessor","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.08056","code":"08056","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Person, assigned by an accreditation body, with relevant professional expertise and experience who can determine the competence of a laboratory.","notes":{"1":"The assessor may work alone or as part of a team and be engaged in a voluntary or paid capacity.","2":"The work of an assessor is often referred to as \"assessment\" and sometimes as \"peer review\".","3":"Depending on the role and responsibilities of an assessor, terms such as \"lead assessor\" and \"technical assessor\" are often used."},"links":[{"term":"competence","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08065"}],"sources":["PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1020 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2019-0819)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08056\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08056\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08056\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'assessor' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.08056","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-07T04:09:55+00:00"}}