International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation

The Scope of Accreditation and Consideration of Methods and Criteria for the Assessment of the Scope in Testing , ILAC G18 2002, International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), Silverwater, Australia, 2002. 

The nonconforming work that will require evidence of implementation of corrective and preventive action within a given timescale will include matters, such as, no corrective action taken when the results from a round of a Proficiency Testing scheme indicated the laboratory s result was an outlier, or the competency records of staff do not indicate they are competent to do the accredited work. Listings of nonconformities can be found in a publication produced by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) [9]. 

ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) http //www.ilac.org AFLAC (Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) http //www.aplac.org/... 

Further to these, the laboratory community has established very useful links to exchange information and ideas, to snbmit suggestions and develop policies. Some of the most important fora on European and international level are EA (European cooperation for Accreditation), EURACHEM, EUROLAB, ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation). 

International Laboratory accreditation cooperation ILAC (2002) ILAC Policy on Traceability of Measurement Results, ILAC P-10, available from www.ilac.org... 

International laboratory accreditation cooperation (ILAC-G13 2007) Guidelines for the requirements for the competence of providers of proficiency testing schemes. 

ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Proficiency testing, accreditation 79-81... 

International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) (2002), Introducing the Concept of Uncertainty of Measurement in Testing in Association with the Application of the Standard ISO/IEC17025, ILAC-G17, ILAC Technical Accreditation Issues Committee, available www.ilac.org. 

ILAC (2001), Guidance for accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 (Rhodes, Australia International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation). 

While the establishment and implementation of national traceability systems is left to the countries and their legislation, the mutual recognition of these national systems calls for an international mechanism, at least if worldwide mutual recognition is aimed at. The MRA of the Meter Convention for national measurement standards and calibration and measurement certificates issued by NMIs [2] can be expected to at least provide for one important aspect of the task, namely the establishment of international equivalence at the national standards level. Together with the success of the work currently carried out by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) for the harmonization of national laboratory accreditation schemes, the MRA will be the key to comparability and hence to ac-... 

Not many terms covering concepts in measurement have circulated over the last ten years in the chemical measurement community around the world so intensely as the term trace-ability. It appears in the title of CITAC (Cooperation on International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry) since 1993. It is addressed almost yearly in Workshops of EURACHEM (A Focus for Analytical Chemistry in Europe). Documents of ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) require it to be used in the process of accreditation. Standards and Guides of ISO (the International Organisation for Standardization) mention them frequently and insistingly. 

ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) (2002). Guidelines for Forensic Science Laboratories. ILAC-G19 2002. ILAC, silver water, Australia. 

International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (2002) ILAC G19 2002 Guidelines for forensic science laboratories http //www.ilac. org/documents/gl9 2002. pdf Accessed 17 Nov 2010... 

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