Why the United States needs NACLA Recognition of

Accreditation Bodies

One Accreditation Body’s Perspective

As an Accreditation Body in the US we believe in the following:

National (National Interests)

Cooperation (we all cooperate for the common purpose, vision and objective)

Laboratory (the makers of data that decisions are based on)

Accreditation (third-party attestation (witness demonstration) of competence by a competent person)

National Interests • Protection of citizens (safety, security, health,

etc.)

• Very important work for common good

• Do we as a country have needs outside of the rest of the world when it comes to data and the integrity of data?

• Do we need to push our interests?

• Do others have the same interests?

Cooperation

• Started strong in NACLA

• Individuals in private AB’s became part of problem and not the solution

• We must right that wrong

• Facts are facts and politics have no right to stand in the way of cooperation and national interests

Laboratories

• Laboratory technicians are who we all work for. These are the people who make data … we all just use it.

• Laboratory technicians only need us to supply them with the tools to do their job and leave them alone.

• The key is in the level of tools needed and do they have everything they need

Accreditation• Third Party coming in to confirm all the tools

are there for someone – The key here is for whom are the confirmations

(attestations) done– Other AB’s– Regulators?– Specifiers?– The labs themselves?– National Interests?