Panel Discussion on PIXE Analysis and AccuracyNo Access

RESEARCH LABORATORIES CONFORMING TO ISO/IEC 17025

YOSHIHIRO NARA

MIN Consultant, Inc., 24-8 Hamakaze, Ashia 659-0032, Japan

https://doi.org/10.1142/S012908350300004XCited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Many countries have promoted the multilateral commerce in the global market according to the WTO/TBT (Agreement of Technical Barrier to Trade). One of the most important factors to implement this agreement is that the trade goods should be evaluated once in the export or import country. Therefore the test laboratories for product assessment should construct the new management systems to get the same results of tests anywhere in the world. Even the research laboratories are in the same situation as well as the test laboratories because they must compare their data with others for joint study. They should be encouraged to apply the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 to their systems.

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