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Research and development activities are carried out by various types of laboratories that are not the typical testing and calibration laboratories for which the ISO/IEC 17025 is the quality assurance implementation reference. In this paper, such laboratories engaged in R&D activities are classified and different approaches they can adopt with a view to implementing a quality system that are suited to their characteristics and the type of work they conduct are proposed. These approaches take account of existing standards for the certification/accreditation of laboratories and of guides on quality assurance for non-routine analytical laboratories.
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Received: 11 July 2002 Accepted: 29 November 2002
Presented at Analytica Conference, 23–26 April 2002, Munich, Germany
Correspondence to M. Valcárcel
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Valcárcel, M., Ríos, A. Quality assurance in analytical laboratories engaged in research and development activities. Accred Qual Assur 8, 78–81 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-002-0570-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-002-0570-z