Our Lab is A2LA Accredited
What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is the unbiased assessment by a ILAC Signatory of a laboratory’s quality program and technical capabilities.
These organizations are part of an international Mutual Recognition agreement and are assessed to ISO 17011 to ensure their competency. An ILAC Signatory, assesses the laboratory against a recognized standard. Internationally, the ISO/IEC 17025 “General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories,” has been the accepted standard for many years. Laboratories accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 are also compliant to the basic requirements of ISO 9001.
ISO/IEC 17025 enables laboratories to demonstrate that they operate competently and generate valid results, thereby promoting confidence in their work both nationally and around the world.
Accreditation indicates that a laboratory has demonstrated that it functions within the parameters of the standard. While accreditation is not a guarantee of a laboratory’s performance, it does provide a means for determining the laboratory’s competence to perform particular types of tests or calibrations. The technical evaluation during an accreditation includes a review (by experts in the relevant discipline) of calibration procedures, calibration standards, traceability, uncertainty analysis, actual results, and statistical process control.
Laboratory accreditation has been a requirement in many countries for years. Nationally recognized accreditation bodies have provided customers with confidence in calibration certificates and reports by employing generally established standards set by the European (CEN) or international (ISO) standardization bodies. Accreditation in the United States is voluntary. Nevertheless, as more companies become ISO 9001 certified, accreditation is becoming a more common practice in the United States.
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