A2LA Issues First Accreditation to Newly Published ISO/IEC 17025:2017

A2LA has issued its first accreditation to the newly published ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard. Following publication of the new standard in November 2017, A2LA rolled out a transition plan for current and new customers to implement it within the ILAC mandated three-year transition period.

This milestone accreditation was completed by Fischer Custom Communications, A2LA certificate number 2393.01. Fischer Custom Communications is accredited to perform electrical – R/F microwave calibrations and has been accredited by A2LA, previously under the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard, for over 10 years.

“After spending almost three years on ISO CASCO Working Group 44 writing the new ISO/IEC 17025 standard it is very rewarding to actually see it fully implemented,” said A2LA Senior Director Accreditation Services Trace McInturff. “Having two A2LA staff on the working group, it was imperative for us to prepare our organization and initiate accreditation processes for the new version as soon as the final document was published.”

A2LA began regularly assessing to the new ISO/IEC 17025 standard on April 1, 2018, with the intent of enveloping currently accredited ISO/IEC 17025 laboratories to the new standard during its regularly scheduled renewal assessments. A2LA offers ISO/IEC 17025:2017 public training courses across the United States. For more information, visit www.A2LA.org.        

A2LA is a non-profit, non-governmental, third-party accreditation body, offering internationally-recognized accreditation services and training to testing and calibration laboratories, inspection bodies, proficiency testing providers, reference material producers and product certifiers.