1. Accessing and Interpreting Your Evaluation
API
Accessing and Interpreting Your Evaluation

2. Menu Access your Proficiency Testing Report and additional information
Lab managers: Access all Technicians’ Reports
Technician: Access your Technician Competency Report
Obtain information about All Participants’ results

3. Log in to Paperless Proficiency Testing www.foodpt.com
Click to ‘LOGIN’

4. LOGIN Enter your User ID and Password
(your User ID is your API customer number)
If you have misplaced your Password, click ‘Lost Your Password’

5. You’re now logged in Your laboratory name appears on the top of the page
Click on ‘Evaluation Reports’

6. You can access all the reports from the events in which you participated
Click on the desired ‘Test Event Evaluation Report’ to get a detailed report of your performance

7. Print your Evaluation Report
Click on ‘Print Evaluation (PDF)’ to get your entire report in a printable format

8. Accredited Evaluation Report
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9. Statistics
Click on ‘View’ to get information/ statistics about each parameter

10. Your lab’s reported result is displayed on the graph
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11. Additional Information
You are also able to view information about your performance over time…….
….. As well as general information about your report and the API PT scheme…
… And access information about ‘All participants’ data

12. Performance Summary
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13. Scheme Information
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14. Technician Competency Evaluation Reports will be available on-line, at the same time as the Proficiency Testing Evaluation Reports
Lab Manager can access all Technicians’ Evaluation reports in the ‘Manage Technician’ menu

15. Technician Competency
All Evaluation Reports are accessible
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16. Technician Competency Results
Each Technician can log on with his/her own ID and password to get his/her own report

17. Technician Competency Results
You’re now logged as a Technician…
… and can access the results by clicking ‘Manage Results & Forms’ in the Technician Competency section
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18. ‘Participant Data Summaries’
From the website, labs can get information about all the results obtained by the other participants, as well as the methods used
Click on
‘Participant Data Summaries’

19. All Participants’ Results
Select the desired Test Event

20. All Participants’ Results
You can choose to download the full report for the event…

21. All Participants’ Results
…Or get specific information about one (group of) organism(s)/sample
You can get additional information
regarding the organisms contained in each sample …
… and information about SD, CV and uncertainty, as well as commentary about performance and SDs used to evaluate the samples.

22. All Participants’ Results
It’s possible to ‘extract the results from the laboratories using the same method/type of method (any method used by a minimum of 5 participants is displayed in ‘Method Group’)

23. All Participants’ Results
Select one of the 2 samples of the pack and get the diagram showing All Participants’ results
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24. Any Questions? foodtest@foodpt.com U.S. and Canada: 855-366-3781
International: (001)