Quality is an increasingly present concept nowadays, so meeting the customers’ needs, who buy and use products hire services, becomes essential. For laboratories, applied to reliability traceability of results produced presents itself not only meet customer’s but also allow signing agreements in international trade. The a laboratory can be carried out from elaboration Management System (QMS). T...

It is a requirement under ISO/IEC 17025 that laboratories determine and make available the uncertainty associated with analytical results. To this end, food testing laboratories operating under Revised Guidelines on Good Laboratory Practice in Pesticide Residue Analysis (CAC/GL 40-1993, Rev. 12003) should have available sufficient data derived from method validation/verification, inter-laborato...

Monitoring the validity result is critical requirement of international standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for test and calibration laboratories to provide objective evidence their technical competence. Applying interlaboratory comparison, using alternative instrumentation that has been calibrated, functional checks measuring testing equipment, other methods monitoring results not enough have confiden...

Increasing demands have been made on the Analytical and Consulting services provided by the SMRI to the industry, leading to an internal drive to improve productivity, particularly with respect to paperwork. Central to this has been the installation, configuring, customisation and implementation of an Oracle based Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). LabSystems “SampleManager“ has b...