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Accreditation of Test Laboratories ISO/IEC 17025

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    Customers demand more assurance about the reliability and security of the products and services they buy globally. Only accredited testing and calibration laboratories can provide the market (business, PA, consumers) with reliable, credible, and internationally accepted declarations of conformity. Accreditation of a test laboratory means the formal recognition given by a third party of the laboratory's technical competence in carrying out certain tests. Accreditation is issued for individual tests, and therefore not, it must be confused with a recognition extended to the laboratory as a whole. ACCREDIA issues accreditation for certain tests when the laboratory demonstrates that its activities comply with the international standard ISO / IEC 17025: "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories." This standard refers to test laboratories, thus indicating both the chemical-physical and microbiological analysis laboratories, and the...