Migration of your laboratory accreditation mandatory from 1st January 2019
On 25th January, the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) published a Technical Bulletin with deadlines for the transition for Testing and Calibration Laboratories to the revised ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Standard.
UKAS will be ready to begin the transition of its accredited laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 from 1 st March 2018.
However, assessments to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 will not be mandatory until 1 st January 2019.
Therefore, during the period of March to the end of December 2018, laboratories will be given the option of either delaying their ISO 17025:2017 transition until the following year or deciding to bring it forward to 2018.
It is proposed that the transition assessments be undertaken with the scheduled annual UKAS visits.
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