Both the 17025:1999 standard and especially ANSI/ISO/ASQ,9001-2000 standard require that a laboratory document its procedures for obtaining reliable results. The Laboratory Quality Assurance Manual details to the user how to a prepare a new laboratory quality assurance manual, which will be appropriate to use as a procedures manual for a particular laboratory, a sales tool to attract potential customers, a document that can be to answer regulatory questions, and ultimately a tool to become a registered ISO 9001/2000 Lab and gain related certifications based on the standard. The Laboratory Quality Assurance Manual:
-Incoporates changes to ANSI/ISO/ASQ 9001-2000 pertaining to laboratories.
-Provides blank forms used in preparing a quality manual.
-Provides information on the interrelationship of ANSI/ISO 17025:1999 and ANSI/ISO/ASQ 9001-2000.
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The Laboratory Quality Assurance System: A Manual of Quality Procedures and Forms
By Thomas A. Ratliff
Published by Wiley-IEEE, 2005
ISBN 0471721662, 9780471721666
248 pages