Research and recommendations from analysis laboratories for specific needs or reference laboratories
The right laboratory for the right information
Finding an analysis laboratory outside the company can seem easy most of the time. However, it is important to consider that the laboratories offering analysis services for the food industry are numerous but do not all offer the same services , the same type of support and, above all, are not necessarily certified for the food industry. same settings .
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Food factory laboratories or industrial laboratories:
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Often perform routine tests and rarely more
Do not necessarily seek to be certified to provide results officially recognized by the regulatory authority or by a standard
Often use subcontractors when they:
Cannot perform certain analyzes themselves
They want an official result to meet a regulatory compliance requirement or comply with an officially recognized standard or customer requirement
Works often with ready kits to perform their analysis faster
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When you want to obtain an analysis result for a parameter in question; it is important to ask yourself what to do with the result :
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Use it as data to adjust an equipment, machine or device
Use it to prepare a certificate of analysis for a reference material or internal standard
Use it to convey an official result to representatives of the regulatory authority , to an audit firm or to a client
Use it to validate the compliance of an operating parameter such as the hardness of the water, the conductivity of a solution or the pH of a mixture
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Depending on what you want to do with the result , you will need to choose whether you do the analysis yourself or whether you will outsource it .
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Reference laboratories
In the event that you need to participate in performance reviews or inter-laboratory studies , you will need to choose identify and choose a laboratory .
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How to do:
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First determine the parameters for which you need to pass performance assessment (s)
First determine the parameters for which you must or wish to participate in an inter-laboratory study
Check the validity of the laboratory's operating certificate
You must check if the laboratory you have chosen has within its scope of audit the analysis method that suits your needs
Make sure that the laboratory will include minimal elements of quality controls to validate that the results it provides to you are valid
Check the membership conditions , the number and frequency of analyzes to be carried out to participate in these evaluations or studies
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If it is a case that involves doing business with a laboratory in a foreign country ; the same rules apply in addition to ensuring the official recognition of the laboratory in question at the international level.
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Sources of information at your disposal
In order to carry out the necessary verifications to validate the choice of a laboratory ; you will need to consult the data available on the websites of Canadian and foreign certification bodies if applicable.
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Most industrialized and emerging countries have systems to assess and certify the competence of analytical laboratories and maintain online registers.
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However, the task will be more difficult for the reference laboratories . Some only accept institutional or government clients while others are open to everyone . You will have to do some research to find the right one for you. Do not hesitate to look abroad because you will find more easily, especially if you have specific needs that are out of the ordinary.
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We are able to help you research and recommend analytical or reference laboratories so that you can choose the one that suits your needs . This will help meet regulatory compliance requirements, standards and those of your clients (including those specified in the GFSI standards) when you need to provide the results of official analyzes and recognized. This will also save time in addition to avoiding performing analyzes whose results would not be recognized here by the regulatory authority , according to a standard or by your customers .
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