ISO/IEC 17025 latest edition has been published

Featured News 2017-12-06

The international organization of standardization has just published the latest update of the most popular standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, namely the ISO/IEC 17025. Based on the latest changes of laboratory environment and work practices, the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 will replace ISO/IEC 17025:2005, and will cover technical and vocabulary changes, IT developments and will take into consideration the latest version of ISO 9001 on quality management.

Laboratories already certified with ISO/IEC 17025:2005 will have to transition to the new version of the standard within a three-year period from the publication date of the standard.

The standard’s main changes:

  • The Scope has been revised to cover testing, calibration and sampling associated with subsequent calibration and testing
  • The process approach now matches that of newer standards such as ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 15189 (quality of medical laboratories) and ISO/IEC 17021-1 (requirements for audit and certification bodies)
  • The standard has now a stronger focus on information technologies and incorporates the use of computer systems, electronic records and the production of electronic results and reports
  • A new chapter introduces the concept of risk-based thinking

Click here to find out more about this standard.

Source: ISO


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