Water quality laboratories analyze countless samples of water each day to ensure that the more than one billion glasses of water consumed daily are void of harmful substances.

Once in my early days as a bench chemist, lab notebooks were collected to serve as evidence in a patent law suit. This experience put the fear into me. I learned a lesson in all aspects of documentation and in reporting defensible data.

The American Society for Clinical Pathology has announced that the ASCP Board of Registry was awarded accreditation by the American National Standards Institute for a period of five years.

ANSI has created the

The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), the world's largest organization representing the laboratory team, approved and announced its policy on health information technology/informatics and electronic medical health reco

One of the new requirements in ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is to actively seek the feedback of laboratory customers and do something with it to improve the management system and the technical activities. Fairly ambitious words.

Mutual recognition arrangements (MRAS) are drawing the global accreditation community closer to accepting the outcomes of each other's accreditation.