What is accreditation

Bodies which do system and product certification, they have to demonstrate specialist and sufficiency that their certificates are accepted as common and get confidence. Only consumer can not measure these, these duties are done by independent ‘’ accreditation Council’’. Basic accreditation has criteria's which are identified by international standard.

Responsibility of certification bodies is to practice these criteria's, whereas accreditation council controls regularly that these practices are used.

Briefly accreditation; A product or service have to be shown that they are suitable accepted by market requirements, standards, regulations and formal authority audit conformity evaluation bodies which analyze, test, examination and certification product or services, by international criteria's to determine their techniques and administrative sufficiency

must bodies which do product /service, system and personnel certification with calibration and test laboratories, be accredited?

National and international arrangements about accreditations does not bring obligations. Accreditation is done by voluntary. Generally liberal market economy which are given conformity evaluation service, foster laboratories and certification bodies to be accreditation. If a laboratory or certification body is accredited, then it will get more prestige If certification bodies and laboratories think that they can find customer and satisfy customer without being accreditation, and go on to service without accreditation . But this organizations can have mandatory to be accreditation according to market and customer requirements. Food laboratories must be accredited in Europe Community. Accreditation is vehicle for confirming organization assignment.
 

Although accreditation is not mandatory, what are advantages of laboratory which took accreditation certificate?
Laboratory accreditation means both national and international high prestige as confident indicator of technique sufficiency. Laboratory accreditation provides to recognize sufficiency as formal and it present easy method to select and determine to customers confident test, analysis and calibration services.

Operations which are done for laboratory accreditation, are arranged and standard according to international criteria's. For accreditation used with common approach, report and certificate which include results got by accredited laboratory, are accepted by international. This situation decreases repeating of test and analysis of goods trade between countries, addition costs of test and analysis are decreased. .