Friday, January 30, 2009

What is laboratory accreditation?

The international standard for competence in laboratories is ISO 17025.
Accreditation to this standard allows for mutual recognition of data generated by laboratories worldwide. For such a holistic approach to work, all laboratories must operate within the same set of guidelines.
ISO 17025 is written in such a way as to allow this to happen without undue proscription on business practice within the organizations to which the individual laboratories belong. It is, in essence, an over-arching statement of intent implemented by documented processes through validated methodology supported by record-keeping and audit.

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