Recently, A2LA updated R103 – General Requirements – Proficiency Testing for Conformity Assessment Bodies. Two significant changes include incorporating more credence into interlaboratory comparisons (ILCs) throughout the document and adding a new requirement for conformity assessment bodies (CABs)
Standards within Standards: Meeting Relevant Requirements
When a standard refers to the requirements in another standard, how far should organizations and assessors go to meet the “relevant requirements”? The new ISO/IEC 17043 standard for proficiency testing (PT) providers was published May 2023; and while these updates mainly aligned the standard with