Friday, 30 April 2010

Joint IAF-ILAC-ISO Communiqué on the Management Systems Requirements of ISO 15189

Medical laboratories accredited to ISO 15189:2007 (a sector-specific technical competence and management system standard) are recognized as meeting the management system principles of ISO 9001:2008.

The move was announced in a joint communiqué by ISO (the International Organization for Standardization), ILAC (the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) and the IAF (the International Accreditation Forum) in September 2009.

The ISO-IAF-ILAC communiqué was issued to address the misconception in the market that medical laboratories accredited to ISO 15189:2007 do not operate a recognized management system.

This document follows another ISO-IAF-ILAC communiqué that was issued to address the misconception in the market that laboratories accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 do not operate a recognized management system.

Source: www.ilac.org

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