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A2LA Today
December 2016 / Number 133
The Newsletter of the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
In This Issue ... Revising ISO/IEC 17025 –
A Summary of CASCO
R__e_c_e__n_t _N_e__w_s__________ WG44 Meeting 5
Revising ISO/IEC 17025 – A By Trace McInturff, Senior Director of Accreditation Services
Summary of CASCO WG44
Meeting 5 CASCO Working Group (WG) 44 held its fifth meeting in Geneva, Swit-
A2LA Accepting Applications zerland on 20-23 September 2016 at the ISO headquarters. Forty-One
for Department of Homeland delegates and nineteen liaison members were in attendance plus eight
Security P25 Compliance additional members via Webex.
Assessment Program (P25
CAP) ANSI was represented by Werner Schaefer (Schaefer Associates) and
Transition Period for ISO Trace McInturff (A2LA).
17034:2016 Implementation
Established for Accredited The main purpose of this WG 44 meeting was the resolution of issues and
Reference Materials comments brought forward by the Drafting Group (DG) that met in July
Producers 2016 to address the comments received on the second Committee Draft
Peter Unger Honored for (CD). Numerous issues had been identified by the Drafting Group that
Years of Service at ILAC required discussion and/or a decision by the whole Working Group. The
General Assembly conveners explained the way the DG proceeded in July and presented
a list of “key issues” generated by the DG to be addressed by the WG
ISO/IEC 17025 Identified members before the meeting.
as an Approved Forensic
Standard by the OSAC The conveners drew the group’s attention to the CD2 ISO/IEC 17025 bal-
lot result and highlighted the strong consensus (96% of CASCO members
_A_2_L_A__U_p__d_a_t_e_s_________ voted in favor of the CD2) to move to the Draft International Standard
(DIS) stage. The WG took the decision to move the document to the DIS
Spring 2017 Training Schedule stage.
January 2017 Webinar Series
A2LA Welcomes New Decisions about the next meetings:
Approved Lead Assessors
New & Updated Documents a) The DG will meet to pre-review and propose observations for DIS
comments from 1-3 May 2017, in Vancouver, Canada. A call for
Newsletter Staff ... experts will be launched by the CASCO Secretariat for this meeting.
The DG is made of volunteers who have agreed to be physically
Editor: Kelsey Roberts present in Vancouver. Size of the DG is limited and the group serves
Layout Design: Gina McInturff to prepare the next WG meeting.
b) The next WG meeting is scheduled to take place the week of
10 July 2017 in Geneva at the ISO Central Secretariat premises. n
