Ensuring Your Quality Data is Accurate and Defensible
In the agricultural and forestry sectors, critical decisions worth millions are based on laboratory data. A robust Quality Assurance (QA) program and Quality Control (QC) program are essential for ensuring that data is reliable, repeatable, and legally defensible.
BQCIS provides specialized advisory and audit services to validate your quality systems. For laboratories, we conduct audits against ISO/IEC 17025, assessing technical competence, method validation, and uncertainty calculations.
We also manage Inter-Laboratory Testing ("Round Robin") programs where identical samples are analyzed across multiple labs to measure statistical bias and verify alignment, preventing commercial disputes.
Key QA/QC Activities
ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratory Audits
Our certified auditors perform comprehensive audits of your laboratory’s Quality Management System against ISO/IEC 17025. This includes method validation, measurement uncertainty, calibration traceability, and staff competency reviews — the deep technical elements required for accreditation.
Inter-Laboratory (Round Robin) Testing
We design and run proficiency testing programs across your supply chain laboratories. By comparing results from mine-site labs, port labs, and umpire labs, we identify bias and systematic error. We also review full QA/QC programs including CRMs, control charts, and non-conformance procedures.
Key Benefits of Our Training
Build Internal Competency
Strengthen your team’s ability to maintain and audit laboratory quality systems effectively.
Ensure System Effectiveness
Improve detection of errors and strengthen traceability and defensibility of analytical data.
Drive Continual Improvement
Use QA/QC trend insights to optimize lab performance and reduce measurement uncertainty.
Achieve & Maintain Certification
Prepare confidently for ISO 17025 accreditation and client audits with validated, defensible data.
Success Story
ISO 17025 Audit Prepares Lab for Accreditation
A major agricultural cooperative needed ISO 17025 accreditation but was unsure if their testing methods and uncertainty budgets met the standard.
BQCIS performed a full gap-assessment, auditing method validation, staff competency, traceability, and uncertainty calculations.
The lab corrected all deficiencies before applying. They passed their accreditation audit with **zero major findings**, achieving certification 6 months earlier than projected.