Good Laboratory Practices

We administer the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) initiative in Canada and are the only monitoring authority in Canada that grants OECD Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) recognition. The program is based on the OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice, which is a managerial concept covering the organizational process and conditions under which non-clinical health and environmental safety studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded and reported.

OECD GLP principles cover virtually all management aspects of non-clinical health and environmental safety studies, from planning experiments to archiving and reporting results. The purpose of the Principles of GLP is to promote the development of quality test data.

Our program encompasses facilities conducting safety studies for pesticide/biocide products, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, industrial chemicals, veterinary medical products, tobacco products, and disinfectant efficacy. The areas of expertise include physical-chemical testing, toxicity studies, mutagenicity studies, environmental toxicity studies on aquatic and terrestrial organisms, studies on behavior in water, soil, and air, bioaccumulation, residue studies, studies on effects on mesocosms and natural ecosystems, as well as analytical and clinical chemistry testing.
We have successfully undergone periodic evaluations by the OECD, which allows us to be the Canadian national GLP compliance monitoring program. SCC GLP recognition allows organizations to benefit from the OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data.

The OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data system is a multilateral agreement that allows the results of a variety of non-clinical safety tests studies to be shared across OECD. It requires that testing be carried out according to OECD Test Guidelines and OECD Principles of GLP, in a facility that has been inspected by a national GLP compliance monitoring program that has undergone successful evaluation by the OECD.

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