AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR LABORATORY ACCREDITATION (A2LA)

摘要

On October 24, 2002, A2LA joined INMETRO of Brazil and SCC of Canada in signing the newly established Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC) Multilateral Recognition Arrangement (MLA). The inter-American Accreditation Cooperation is a relatively new regional cooperation of accreditation, certification and inspection bodies, as well as representatives from testing and calibration laboratories and other interested parties from countries in North and South America. Similar to APLA and EA, IAAC's main objective is to facilitate commercial exchange among the member nations or blocs of nations in the economies it serves through a system of recognition arrangements of various types of conformity assessment bodies.