Alkemist Labs, Costa Mesa, CA, has received ISO 17025 accreditation by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). The Lab has also met the AOAC Analytical Laboratory Accreditation Criteria Committee (ALACC) guidelines that are newly revised to include criteria specific to testing dietary supplements.
 
The ISO 17025 accreditation demonstrates that Alkemist Labs meets managerial and technical quality benchmarks as required by the International Organization for Standardization ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories for the tests performed within Alkemist’s scope. It involved a thorough assessment and review of the lab’s quality management system and competence to perform Dietary Supplement Identification and Qualitative Analysis HPTLC testing and Botanical Identification and Qualitative Analysis by Microscopy.
 
This certification meets the A2LA P112 Flexible Scope Policy, which states: “There are circumstances in which a laboratory performs testing activities for which it can not identify either standard test methods prepared by national, international, or professional standards writing bodies or in-house developed non-standard methods on their fixed scope of accreditation. These situations usually arise when the laboratory requires flexibility in allowing for changes in the matrices within a product area (flexibility concerning object/matrix/sample) or with respect to parameters (flexibility concerning parameters/components/analytes),” which allows the lab discretion to adapt method parameters to a wide variety of preparations and products to best meet customer needs.
 
In addition, Alkemist Labs has also met the more specific requirements of AOAC Analytical Laboratory Accreditation Criteria Committee (ALACC) Guidelines for Laboratories PerformingMicrobiological and Chemical Analyses of Food, Dietary Supplements, and Pharmaceuticals. Accreditation to this guidance demonstrates that Alkemist Labs has technical expertise and quality systems specific to the dietary supplement, food and pharmaceutical industries which go above and beyond those of ISO/IEC 17025.
 
The Scope of Accreditation to ICO/IEC 17025:2005 certificate # 3851.01 is valid through February 2018:
http://a2la.org/scopepdf/3851-01.pdf?CFID=5550812&CFTOKEN=aa287a813f09326c-8FE61552-5056-A51D-2C0352EEEDA6744D