Accreditation Body

Authoritative party that performs accreditation. (Accreditation is the formal recognition that an organisation is competent to perform specific processes, activities, or tasks (which are detailed in a scope of accreditation) in a reliable credible and accurate manner.)

Accreditation Bodies by Country

AUSTRALIA

• JAS-ANZ Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand

• NATA National Association of Testing Authorities

• APLAC Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Inc.

CANADA

• CALA Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc.

• SCC Standards Council of Canada

CHINA,Peoples Republic of

• CNAS China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment

FRANCE

• COFRAC Comite Francais d'Accreditation

• EA European co-operation for Accreditation

GERMANY

• DAkkS Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH

• ENFSI European Network of Forensic Science Institutes

HONG KONG, CHINA

• HKAS Hong Kong Accreditation Service

• HKTIC Hong Kong Association for Testing, Inspection and Certification

INDONESIA

• KAN National Accreditation Body of Indonesia

KOREA

• KOLAS Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme

MALAYSIA

• Standards Malaysia Department of Standards Malaysia

PHILIPPINES

• PAB Philippine Accreditation Bureau

SINGAPORE

• SAC Singapore Accreditation Council

THAILAND

• BLA-DSS Bureau of Laboratory Accreditation, Department of Science Service, Ministry of Science & Technology

• NSC-ONSC The National Standardization Council of Thailand - Office of the National Standardization Council

UNITED KINGDOM

• UKAS United Kingdom Accreditation Service

• UK NEQAS United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• A-S-B (Merged with ANAB) Accreditation Services Bureau (A-S-B) dba Laboratory Accreditation Bureau (L-A-B)

• AIHA-LAP, LLC AIHA Laboratory Accreditation Programs, LLC

• A2LA American Association for Laboratory Accreditation

• ANAB ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board

• IAS International Accreditation Service, Inc.

• NVLAP National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program

• PJLA Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation, Inc.

• ACIL American Council of Independent Laboratories

• AOAC Association of Official Analytical Chemists AOAC International

• NCSLI National Conference of Standards Laboratories International

References

1. ISO/ IEC 17055