Iso 17025 Accreditation Cooperative Agreement 2012

ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accreditation for State Food Testing Laboratories (U18)RFA-FD-12-008 CFDA 93.103State of WisconsinDepartment of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection2811 Agriculture DrivePO Box 8911Madison, WI 53708-8911Project Facility - Bureau of Laboratory ServicesProject SummaryProject Goals: In support of the State manufactured foods regulatory program, maintainand enhance the ISO\IEC 17025:2005 accreditation held by the laboratory. Provide forincreased microbiological testing capacity as an asset to the national integrated foodsafety system. In support of surveillance and outbreak response activities, provide for anexchange of food testing from the laboratory to the FDA.The project will meet the goals through activities which:¿ Maintains and adds relevant test methods to the laboratory's scope of accreditation, thus assuring the data quality objectives of surveillance and outbreak response activities are met.¿ Works with FDA to implement and maintain an automated exchange of laboratory test data for use in a regulatory environment.¿ Provides advanced quality system training on ISO\IEC17025:2005 standards to lab staff so that a continuity of capability can be maintained.¿ Makes available highly knowledgeable state staff to direct and manage the activities supporting the objectives and goals. Assuring that direction of programmatic tasks is effective and program goals are met through operational management from highly skilled staff.¿ Adds microbiological testing capacity to the national integrated food safety system necessary to provide equivalent testing if lab capacity is needed.