Quality Assurance in Agricultural Laboratory Accreditation

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amanbhai

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I am working for an agricultural lab and my question is about the quality assurance with special reference to accreditation.
How do you maintain the quality assurance system there? Is there any proficiency testing schemes or interlab comparisons avialable for such Agricultural labs?
I am planning for accreditation to my Agricultural Lab therefore need info.
Any help is appriciated!:thanks::thanks::thanks:
 
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Mauri

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Re: Quality Assurance in Agricultural Lab Accreditation

Although I don't know too much about Laboratory services and accreditation I would suggest checking Standards Council of Canada. http :/ /www .scc.ca/en/home - OBSOLETE BROKEN 404 LINK(s) UNLINKED - PLEASE HELP - REPORT POSTS WITH BROKEN LINKS
I work in the agriculture industry and all of the labs we use have accreditation through SCC. I am sure that there are others as well and hopefully someone can help you find what you need.
 
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mguilbert

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I agree with Mauri. At the labs at the agbusiness I worked for there is testing accreditation thru the USDA. Also depending what you testing (Micro, Chem) there may be other orgs with that industry that you can use. Also you may ask other ag labs who they use.

HTH,
Matt
 

Hershal

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Since you are in Canada, SCC is the National AB there. They put the PALCAN requirements on their website.
 
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amanbhai

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Any other labs e.g. worldwide SGS, BV labs etc , or any other labs which have gone through the accreditation and have addressed Quality assurance/ Quality control requirements of ISO/ IEC 17025.
We are actually doing mostly visual analysis of agri commodities. e.g. pulses, rice.
How do you maintain the Quality assurance of the results. participation in inter lab and any proficiency schemes.
:thanks:
 

Hershal

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As you describe it, this appears to be similar to MSR graded lumber (a major export from Canada) and if that is correct, your options increase a bit as you can look to - similar - types of testing and maybe pick up some further approaches.

As for PT/ILC that may be a different issue altogether. There may not be any.
 
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amanbhai

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I am in Pakistan and helping (not initiated the project yet ) a Agriculture lab to achieve ISO/ IEC 17025 accreditation. No clue though regarding the quality specific requirements of the standard. :confused:
 
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Hershal

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I believe Pakistan's AB recently became an APLAC Signatory, and I know NABL (India) is. Between the two they can likely go to APLAC and see if anyone can help. My best guess is that CNAS or NATA would have a similar program.
 
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