E-DRUG: List of ISO 17025:2005 Certified Laboratory
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Hello,
Can you help me find a world-wide list of ISO 17025:2005 Certified
Laboratories for the testing of pharmaceuticals.
Thanking you,
Yasna Singh
UNDP
"Yasna Singh" <yasna.singh@undp.org>
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E-DRUG: List of ISO 17025:2005 Certified Laboratory (2)
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In response to your query, suggest contact the International Standards Organization.
www.iso.org
Michele Forzley, JD, MPH
Global Public Health Lawyer, Consultant & Professor
Protecting public health with governance and rule of law
principles
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Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-565-0680
michele@micheleforzley.com
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dear Yasna Singh and E-druggers,
As far as I know there is no list of ISO qualified laboratories.
Many factories have an ISO laboratory but this is principally for internal use.
The Global Fund started a voluntary application system and now approved seven ISO laboratories. You can find more about this on the Global Fund website:
http://www.theglobalfund.org/documents/psm/communication/QCLab_List_v1.pdf
regards
Chiel Lijdsman
Consultant Managerial Economics
Kigali - Rwanda
chiellijdsman@gmail.com
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Dear Yasna Singh and E-druggers,
I am not sure that you will find a comprehensive and up-to-date list of all laboratories with ISO17025 accreditation worldwide, as it could be difficult to maintain accurately such database for all countries, considering that accreditation needs regularly renewed.
However here is a two steps tip on how to find accredited laboratories in a country (where a national database already exists)
1. You can visit the webpages of International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation or ILAC, the international organization that recognises the national accreditation body, who can officially issue and ISO17025 certificate to laboratories conducting pharmaceutical testing. http://www.ilac.org/home.html
2. Then you can search the member pages for specific countries http://www.ilac.org/members_contact_details.html
and click on country databases of accredited laboratories (where they exist) by clicking on the website of national accreditation bodies.
* For example in the UK the United Kingdom Accreditation Service or UKAS accredits laboratories for pharmaceutical testing. If you use their search enginehttp://www.ukas.org/testing/labsearch.asp
with the correct search terms, then you will find a list of accredited laboratories for the UK. Similar info is available in South Africa from South African National Accreditation System SANAS at
http://www.sanas.co.za/directory/pharma_default.php
Though not all national accreditation agencies will have an up-to-date database on their website, this is one way of checking how many laboratories in a country may have ISO17025 certification.
All the best,
Klara
Dr. Klara Tisocki, B.Pharm., M.Sc., Ph.D.
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