Guidance

Audit of official laboratories (OLs)

Accreditation status, numbers of food examiners employed, tests available and membership of proficiency test schemes.

Documents

Audit of official laboratories capabilities and accreditation status in the UK: 2019 and 2022 results

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Details

To help plan future activities, the national reference laboratory (NRL) for food microbiology carried out an audit of OCLs in the UK, covering accreditation status, numbers of food examiners employed, tests available and membership of proficiency test (PT) schemes.

Previous reports were published by Public Health England.

Updates to this page

Published 19 September 2013
Last updated 21 July 2023 + show all updates
  1. Added report with results for 2019 and 2022.

  2. Uploaded: 'Audit of Official Control Laboratories capabilities and accreditation status in the UK: 2016 results'

  3. First published.

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