Quality Management Unit

Central Laboratory applied a quality management system to conduct the experiments with national/international standards and with ethical and logical conditions of the customers while keeping its impartiality and confidentiality principles. The Quality Management Department represents METU Central Lab. at the Turkish Accreditation Agency (ΤÜRKAK)and works to continuously apply the quality management system and follow up on the process.

The main objective of the quality management system is a continuous improvement by evaluating quality goals, action plans, activity reports, customer requests, internal inspection, and the meetings of management revision. For this reason, the laboratory uses these documents;

  • Quality Book
  • Organization Book
  • Procedures
  • Instructions
  • Forms
  • Lists
  • Registrations

These documents are regulated in a manner that could be understandable, reachable, and applicable by the staff—the comprehensibility of the documentation provided to the staff by educating programs and informing seminars.

According to the inspection of the Turkish Accreditation Agency (ΤÜRKAK), METU Central Laboratory (Central Lab.) got accreditation for 13 different analyses (plastics, metallic materials, fruit and vegetable juices, provender and seeds) with TS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2010 standard at 31 December of 2013. The accreditation is continuing through the annual inspection, and furtherly scope broadening progresses.

Click here for the scope of the accreditation.

Akreditasyon Sertifikası

Quality Management Department

Central Lab. applied quality management system to be capable of fulfilling the experiments with national/international standards and with ethical and logical conditions of the customers while keeping its impartiality and confidentiality principles. The Quality Management Department represents METU Central Lab. at Turkish Accreditation Agency (ΤÜRKAK)and works to apply the quality management system and follow up on the process, continuously.

The the main objective of the quality management system is the continuous improvement by evaluating quality goals, action plans, activity reports, customer requests, internal inspection, and the meetings of management revision. For this reason, the laboratory uses these documents;

  • Manuel of the Quality

  • Manuel of the Organization

  • Procedures

  • Instructions

  • Forms

  • Lists

  • Registrations

Theses documents regulated in a manner that could be understandable, reachable, and applicable by the staff. The comprehensibility of the the documentation provided to the staff by educating programs and informing seminars.

According to the inspection of the Turkish Accreditation Agency (ΤÜRKAK), METU Central Laboratory (Central Lab.) got accreditation for 13 different analysis (plastics, metallic materials, fruit and vegetable juices, provender, and seeds) with TS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2010 standard at 31 December of 2013. The accreditation is continuing through the annual inspection and furtherly scope broadening progress.

Click here for the scope of the accreditation.