Accreditation is now widely used to attest for laboratory competence.Although accreditation was originally used to assess products in testing laboratories and still plays an increasingly important role in internationa...Accreditation is now widely used to attest for laboratory competence.Although accreditation was originally used to assess products in testing laboratories and still plays an increasingly important role in international trade,it has been expanded to include laboratories in many social fields,including forensic science,medicine,and animal quarantine reference.The accreditation process provides basic requirements for achieving global recognition for laboratory reports.This paper introduces the concept of accreditation and discusses the origins and development of the accreditation system in Chinese biosafety laboratories.This study also reveals the important role of this system in national biosafety management through an examination of the 14-year development of the Chinese biosafety laboratory accreditation system.展开更多
基金This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology,People’s Republic of China(the National Key Research and Development Plan,2016YFC 1202202).
文摘Accreditation is now widely used to attest for laboratory competence.Although accreditation was originally used to assess products in testing laboratories and still plays an increasingly important role in international trade,it has been expanded to include laboratories in many social fields,including forensic science,medicine,and animal quarantine reference.The accreditation process provides basic requirements for achieving global recognition for laboratory reports.This paper introduces the concept of accreditation and discusses the origins and development of the accreditation system in Chinese biosafety laboratories.This study also reveals the important role of this system in national biosafety management through an examination of the 14-year development of the Chinese biosafety laboratory accreditation system.
