About L-A-B

L-A-B Objectives

  L-A-B is a recognized accreditation body, dedicating itself to continually:

  - Providing service for our client's needs

•   - Improving the quality of laboratories and the services they provide

•   - Increasing the acceptance of accredited laboratories worldwide

•   - Complying with ISO/IEC 17011

  Who We Are

Laboratory Accreditation Bureau, a Michigan corporation, was established to provide laboratory accreditation services to independent and captive, testing and calibration laboratories across North America.  Laboratory Accreditation Bureau conforms to ISO/IEC 17011 in assessing and accrediting laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025.  Additional information about related bodies to L-A-B is available upon request.

Why L-A-B 

The founding of L-A-B was based on one uncompromising goal - to provide testing and calibration laboratories with superior accreditation services, performed by a team of qualified assessors. Timely response is a top priority.    L-A-B realizes that many laboratories are subject to time-sensitive mandates and strives to schedule and conduct assessments to client timetables. The goal is to process reports and issue certificates with minimal delay.

Assessor selection criteria include experience, overall qualifications, communication/interpersonal capabilities and geographic representation - to provide the best combination of functional and relational skills.

Global harmonization of national and industry-specific standards is accelerating. This means that, in the future, suppliers will contend with compliance to fewer, more consistent, and more widely recognized standards. These requirements will extend deeper into the supply chain, impacting companies that previously were excluded from having to meet formal requirements.