Journal:ISO/IEC 17025: History and introduction of concepts
| Full article title | ISO/IEC 17025: History and introduction of concepts |
|---|---|
| Journal | Química Nova |
| Author(s) | Miguel, Anna L.R.; Moreiraa, Renata P.L.; de Oliveira, André F. |
| Author affiliation(s) | Universidade Federal de Viçosa |
| Primary contact | Email: annaluisarmiguel at gmail dot com |
| Year published | 2021 |
| Volume and issue | 44(6) |
| Page(s) | 792–6 |
| DOI | 10.21577/0100-4042.20170726 |
| ISSN | 1678-7064 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.scielo.br/j/qn/a/3gwbfvVs8qydVd5ZstwXCph/ |
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Abstract
Quality is an increasingly present concept nowadays, and meeting the needs of customers who buy and use products and hire services becomes essential. For laboratories, the concept is applied not only to the reliability and traceability of the results produced, but it also presents itself in meeting the customer’s needs and providing confidence when signing agreements in the international trade. The concept of quality in a laboratory can be carried out from the development and implementation of a quality management system (QMS). To this end, the normative, internationally accepted document ISO/IEC 17025 aims at instructing the development and implementation of a management system, which ideally proves the technical capacity of testing and calibration laboratories and guides the generation of reliable results. The document is in its third version as a standard, the most current one published in 2017, and it presents requirements to achieve the proposed objective of quality assurance. In the face of the importance of these concepts and the unquestionable need of laboratories to provide reliable and traceable results, this article presents the normative history of ISO/IEC 17025 and its most recent changes. Its intent is to support laboratories whose objective is to implement a QMS according to this normative reference.
Keywords: quality management system, quality assurance, laboratory accreditation, traceability, reliable results
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