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"ISO/IEC 17025: History and introduction of concepts"

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 ... (Full article...)
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