Fundamentals of Internal Auditing
Internal audits are required by many ISO certification and accreditation standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025. This stresses the importance of a vast…
ISO 7862:2004—Sled Test Procedure For Road Vehicles
Each year, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) tests roughly 90 to 150 cars. It evaluates each vehicle is evaluated in four areas—frontal crash test, side barrier…
FBI QAS Audit Process
The DNA Identification Act of 1994 required the FBI laboratory to ensure that all DNA laboratories who receive federal grant funding or who participate in…
ASTM E1048-88(2021): Color-Coding Pipets
Anticoagulants are medicines that help prevent blood clots. They are given to people at high risk of blood clots, reducing their chances of developing serious,…
Remote Assessments for Laboratories
What Is a Remote Assessment? ISO/IEC 17011:2017 defines remote assessment as an assessment of the physical location or virtual site of a conformity assessment body…
What Is AR 3125?
The Accreditation Requirements for Forensic Testing and Calibration, AR 3125, supplements ISO/IEC 17025:2017 with applicable requirements from the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) policies. Additionally,…
IQ/OQ/PQ in Equipment Verification and Validation
Ensuring laboratory equipment operates as expected is critically important to the validity of results generated by the laboratory. As part of process validation through IQ/OQ/PQ,…
ASTM E1578-18: Standard Guide For Laboratory Informatics
With the rise of “informatics” disciplines such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and health informatics, laboratory informatics is a critical part of today’s laboratory operations, helping ensure high quality and reliable…
Why Do You Need a Management Review?
Why Do You Need a Management Review? Would you fly or sail over the oceans without instruments to navigate your way? A small error at…