ILAC – Memories of the Early Days
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Laboratory Accreditation Laboratory accreditation was developed in Australia immediately following WWII. Its purpose was to facilitate recognition of testing and measurement laboratories within Australia, purely for domestic purposes. An important subsidiary objective was to encourage all laboratories to aspire to reach the necessary standard for accreditation.
Other countries gradually became aware of the work and its organisational arrangements operated by the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) and watched its development with interest without being persuaded of its benefits for them except in niche activities. The first such offspring was the British Calibration Service – for measurement laboratories only. It had as an immediate objective, the recognition of calibration documentation issued by British laboratories in all markets, not just in the UK.
Comprehensive national accreditation programs on the NATA model began to emerge in the 1970s in Denmark, New Zealand, the USA and Canada. Others were to follow.
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World Accreditation Day 2016
June 9, 2016, marks World Accreditation Day as a global initiative, jointly established by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation.

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