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Action required Effective immediately, all laboratories must now refer to SCC Requirements and Guidance for the Accreditation of Testing Laboratories and cease referring to CAN-P-1630 - PALCAN Interpretations for Conducting...

Action required Effective immediately, all laboratories operating in the Mineral Analysis Program Specialty Area must now refer to SCC Requirements and Guidance for the Accreditation of Mineral Analysis Testing Laboratories...

Action required Effective immediately, all laboratories accredited under the Test Method Development and Non-Routine Testing program specialty area (PSA) must now refer to SCC Requirements and Guidance for Accreditation of...

Action required Accredited laboratories shall review their existing quality system and prepare for their first assessment against the ISO 15189:2022 according to the timeline described below. Assessors for this program shall...

Action required Customers shall integrate the updated definitions and clarifications to their management system and adjust operations accordingly. Affected customers Customers, applicants and assessors in the Forensic Program...

Action required Applicant and accredited laboratories that are being assessed to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 must ensure that their quality systems refer to the current version of the SCC Requirements and Guidance for the...

Version 16 – April 2024 The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is a federal Crown corporation established by the Standards Council of Canada Act (“the Act”) of the Parliament in 1970 to foster and promote efficient and...

A previous version of this bulletin included an incorrect date under the deadline section. The error was corrected on 2021-11-12. Action required All laboratories must ensure that their quality systems and technical...

Action required All SCC-accredited and applicant testing, and calibration laboratories shall conform to the revised edition of the SCC Requirements and Guidance for Testing Laboratories (RG-LAB). This document: Was approved...

Action required All SCC laboratories engaged in Test Method Development and Non-Routine Testing shall conform to the revised edition of the SCC Requirements and Guidance for Accreditation of Laboratories Engaged in Test...

Québec – The 15 biomedical laboratories that make up the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) cluster have just obtained their ISO 15189 accreditation in recognition of the quality of their testing and the competence of...

Action required All SCC-accredited and applicant testing laboratories shall conform to version 2 of the SCC Requirements and Guidance for Method Verification and Validation in Testing Laboratories (RG-MVVT), 2021-05-24. This...