# Comparison of AAVLD Laboratory Accreditation Requirements V 2021.01 with ISO17025:2017

> **NIH FDA U18** · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $10,200

## Abstract

Project Summary: The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law on
January 11, 2011, was designed to enable the Food and Drug Administration to better
protect public health by helping ensure safety and security of the food and animal feed
supplies. One of the goals of FSMA is to ensure there is sufficient capacity of high
quality laboratories in the United States to provide food safety and animal feed testing as
well as effective response to outbreaks. The following key goals were identified. To
establish a foundation for high quality laboratory results from animal health testing
laboratories and assist in implementation of the FSMA, the FDA formally partnered with
veterinary medical diagnostic laboratories in 2012 through the formation of the
Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet‐LIRN). Most
laboratories in the Vet-LIRN are accredited by the American Association of Veterinary
Laboratory Diagnostician Accreditation Program, which accredited laboratories using a
laboratory accreditation standard that is congruent with the international laboratory
accreditation standard ISO/IEC 17025, “General requirements for the competence of
testing and calibration laboratories”. In 2016, a joint FDA-AAVLD White paper was
published detailing the alignment of the AAVLD Requirements for an Accredited
Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory with ISO/IEC 17025:2005. The purpose of
this project is to update the previous 2016 document by comparing the current version of
“AAVLD Requirements for an Accredited Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory”
with ISO/IEC 17025:2017, the updated version of “General requirements for the
competence of testing and calibration”.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10215868
- **Project number:** 1U18FD007236-01
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Timothy Baszler
- **Activity code:** U18 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** FDA
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $10,200
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-20 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10215868

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10215868, Comparison of AAVLD Laboratory Accreditation Requirements V 2021.01 with ISO17025:2017 (1U18FD007236-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10215868. Licensed CC0.

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