1. What is ISO/CEI 17025?
ISO/CEI 17025 is a quality, administrative and technical management system standard applicable to any laboratory carrying out calibration and/or testing, regardless of its size or the scope of its calibration and/or testing activities.
The term "test" is to be understood in its broadest sense, and covers any type of experimental measurement, whether physical, chemical or biological. Since 2003, like ISO/CEI 17025, the ISO 15189 standard has covered specific requirements concerning the quality and competence of medical biology laboratories.
To consider ISO/IEC 17025 as a quality management system would be to run the risk of depriving it of a large part of its value, namely the opportunity to demonstrate a laboratory's technical competence.
In its two main chapters, the standard describes the general competence requirements...
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Document LAB-REF-02 - Requirements for laboratory accreditation to NF EN ISO/CEI 17025
CITAC/EURACHEM Guide to quality in analytical chemistry – Accreditation assistance
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Comité français d’accréditation (CoFRAC)
CoFRAC, set up in 1994 under the French law of July 1 er 1901 (a private non-profit association), was designated as the sole national accreditation body by the decree of December 19, 2008, thus recognizing accreditation as a public authority activity.
Reference standards
ISO 9001:2015 - Quality management systems - Requirements
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 - General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
NF EN ISO 10012:2003 - Measurement management systems - Requirements for measurement processes and equipment
ISO/IEC 17000 - Conformity...
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