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 are established in many economies with the primary purpose of ensuring that conformity assessment bodies are subject to oversight by an authoritative body. Accreditation bodies, that have been peer evaluated as competent, sign regional and international arrangements to demonstrate their competence. These accreditation bodies then assess and accredit conformity assessment bodies to the relevant standards.

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
2. http://ilac.org/ilac-membership/members-by-economy/