Report on the Open Forum on Establishment of the National Council for LaboratoryAccreditation (NACLA) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 7, 1997

摘要

An Open Forum on Establishment of the National Council for LaboratoryAccreditation (NACLA) was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in Gaithersburg, Maryland on January 7, 1997. The purpose of the Forum was to discuss a proposal to establish the National Council for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA), which would be a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors designed to provide a national infrastructure for laboratory accreditation in the United States. The agenda for the Forum included presentations on the history of the joint NIST/ANSI/ACIL effort to address the problems of laboratory accreditation in the United States and the development of the NACLA proposal, six stakeholder breakout sessions, an open discussion, a presentation of next steps to be taken toward the establishment of NACLA, and a presentation concerning the process for nominating an interim Board of Directors for NACLA.