Title: OIE Quality Standard and Guidelines for Veterinary Laboratories: Infectious Diseases
Abstract: This book, together with ISO/IEC 17025:1999, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, which it interprets, and the OIE Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines, provide information useful for laboratories conducting tests to enable the international movement of animals.
The extensive glossary, with precise definitions of assay parameters, will ease communication between scientists working in the laboratories of various countries, who may be accustomed to different terminology.
The OIE Standard for Management and Technical Requirements for Laboratories Conducting Tests for Infectious Diseases follows the format familiar to laboratory personnel who conform to ISO/IEC 17025. It describes the management and technical requirements, including items such as document control, corrective actions, records, internal audits, personnel, equipment and reports, to name a few. Workers in veterinary laboratories who have been audited to ISO/IEC 17025:1999 or expect to be audited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 will appreciate the further clarification of the requirements, as they pertain to veterinary laboratories, for items such as test methods. In ISO/IEC 17025, the emphasis is on selection of appropriate test methods to meet the client’s needs. In this standard for veterinary laboratories, the emphasis is on the selection of appropriate test methods that are widely accepted by scientists and regulators. Client agreement is required, of course, and testing laboratories must inform the client of the test method chosen and the reasons for the choice.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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