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Laboratory Accreditation Bureau was established to provide ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory accreditation services to independent and captive, testing and calibration laboratories.  Laboratory Accreditation Bureau is recognized to ISO/IEC 17011 for assessing laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025.

Quality Policy of L-A-B

Laboratory Accreditation Bureau is a recognized laboratory accreditation body, providing:

• Customer satisfaction to our clients and confidence to the end customer.

• Improved quality of testing and calibration laboratories and the services they provide.

• Increased acceptance of accredited laboratories.

• Full conformity with ISO/IEC 17011 and other internationally recognized guides and standards.

Recent Updates / Upcoming Events

L-A-B is very proud to announce that on December 5, 2007 the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) MRA Council has voted to accept Laboratory Accreditation Bureau (L-A-B) into the APLAC MRA for Calibration and Testing.  As a signatory to the APLAC MRA L-A-B automatically advances its associate status in ILAC to full member status and becomes a signatory to the ILAC arrangement.  Thank you to all who directly and indirectly contributed to the evaluation process.  L-A-B would also like to thank APLAC and it's evaluation team for volunteering their time to advance laboratory accreditation worldwide. 

View Official L-A-B Press Release

Link to the APLAC website announcement

Measurement Science Conference - March 12-14, 2008
Anaheim, CA - Disneyland Hotel - Booth 129

*NCSLI Central Indiana Section Meeting - March 28, 2008
Columbus, IN - Cummings

*American Foundry Society Cast Expo - May 15-17, 2008
Atlanta, GA - Georgia World Congress Center, Building C

*NCSLI Workshop and Symposium - August 3-7, 2008
Orlando, FL - Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Resort

ACIL Annual Meeting - October 11-14, 2008
Albuquerque, NM - Hyatt Regency

* L-A-B presenting

L-A-B Assessor and TAG Meeting - November 6-8, 2008
Detroit, MI

ACIL - NACLA

The American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) and the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to launch the creation of a new strategic partnership that will develop supplemental technical requirements for the accreditation of testing and calibration laboratories.

View Official Press Release

The National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA) will hold its annual forum, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on April 1 and 2, 2008 in Columbia, MD. 

Register now for the 2008 NACLA Forum.

L-A-B presented and exhibited at the recent Quality Expo where thousands in attendance made there way to Chicago.  L-A-B appreciates all of the accredited laboratories who exhibited along side us at the show including Faro Technologies, Metris USA Inc., Optodyne Inc., and V-Gage.

Laboratory Information Change

If you need to make a change affecting your accreditation, such as a name change or scope change, please complete the Client Information Change Request Form - 19.

ISO - ILAC - IAF Communiqué on the
Management Systems Requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2005

- Explanatory Letter from ILAC Chair
- Joint ISO-ILAC-IAF Communiqué

- Document Change Notice (Policy 012) - All Laboratories - 7/24/07

- Document Change Notice - All Laboratories - 2/27/07

   -  Explanatory Letter

- Document Change Notice - All Laboratories - 2/14/07

- Document Change Notice - All Laboratories - 1/15/07

- Document Change Notice - Calibration and Dimensional Inspect Labs - 1/2/07

- Document Change Notice - All Laboratories - 11/17/06

- Document Change Notice - All Laboratories - 9/11/06