International accreditation of four research laboratories at Qatar University (QU) have been renewed, re-affirming their status as world-class facilities complying to global standards and best practice.
QU’s research laboratories at Environmental Science Center (ESC), Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Central Laboratory Unit (CLU), and Gas Processing Center (GPC) have been awarded renewal of their ISO/IEC - 17025:2005 accreditation status from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA).
The labs initially obtained accreditation status from A2LA in April 2010. Since then, A2LA has been conducting audits regularly to evaluate the quality management systems at QU research labs.
This accreditation demonstrates that the labs are completely in compliance with the accreditation requirements spelled out in ISO/IEC - 17025:2005. It also demonstrates technical competence and operation of a laboratory quality management system of ISO-ILAC-IAF and management system requirements of ISO 9001: 2008 standards.
QU research labs are participating successfully in the proficiency testing programs with ASTM (USA), MAPEP (US Department of Energy), LGC Standards (UK), Schema (Greece), and ERA (USA).
