ISO/IEC 17025 - General Information

With the trend toward globalization now well established, there is an increasing need for qualification of products and services that are accepted around the world. If your products and services are not tested or calibrated by an internationally accepted test or calibration service, your customers may require additional testing or calibration in their country, putting you at an competitive disadvantage.The Laboratory Recognition Services Program assesses calibration and testing laboratories to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. The ISO/IEC 17025 standard establishes requirements for a laboratory management system that combines the quality management system with technical competence requirements. The standard can be thought of as a technically rigorous application of ISO 9001 to a calibration or testing laboratory.

ISO/IEC 17025 replaces a prior standard called ISO Guide 25. Where an ISO 9001 audit team includes people with the general industry code to audit a customer, an ISO/IEC 17025 assessment team includes not only one or more quality systems auditors, but also includes technical expertise in the specific tests or calibrations performed by the customer. There are rules for qualifications that are more stringent for ISO/IEC 17025 than for ISO 9001.We are ready to guide you through the recognition process in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 in order to create transparency and comprehensibility for all processes.