Human and Animal Laboratory Resources

• Managing Food Testing Laboratory Operations During and After a Pandemic​

• GOOD Test Portions - Guidance on Obtaining Defensible Test Portions​ (June 2020) 
• GOOD Test Portions [Audio Transcript] (June 2020)
• GOOD Samples: Guidance on Obtaining Defensible Samples (2016)

• Inorganic Data Auditing​ (Feb 2020)
• Organic Data Auditing (Aug 2019)
• Why is Data Auditing Important (June 2019)
• Internal Audits (September 29, 2016)​

• Laboratory Ethics
• ​Achieving and Maintaining Data with Integrity (2020)
• Ethical Vigilance: Lessons for Environmental Laboratories and Beyond (2018) (Login required)
• Environmental Laboratory Ethics: Then and Now (2017)
• Lab Fraud: Why Should I Worry. What Could Happen? Part Deux (2016)

• NCBI Pathogen Detection Part 1: Introduction
• NCBI Pathogen Detection Part 2: Advanced Pathogen Detection Concepts
• Introduction to Phylogeny

• Human and Animal Food Testing Laboratories Best Practices Manual
• Compliance Checklist (PDF)
• Compliance Checklist (Word Doc)
• COVID Lessons Learned

• The Advantages of Being Accredited 
• Accreditation: Supporting Safe Food and Clean Drinking Water
• ILACMRA Signatory Search for Accreditation Body

• Crosswalk of ISO/IEC 17025 Standards--2005 v. 2017 (Eurolab)
• ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Gap Analysis (NATA)

• AAFCO Proficiency Testing 
• List of Proficiency Test Providers (EPTIS database) 

• Reducing Anxiety over Method Validation and Verification (APHL webinar, 2024) 
• Guidelines for the Validation of Analytical Methods for the Detection of Microbial Pathogens in Foods and Feeds, 3rd Edition (2019)
• Guidelines for the Validation of Chemical Methods for the FDA FVM Program, 3rd Edition (2019)

• Quality Manager's Pathway (part of NCS Laboratory Curriculum Framework)
• Quality Assurance Specialist/Officer Learning Ladder
• Model Practices for Nonconforming Events
• Evidentiary & Analyte Integrity Policy Checklist
• APHL Quality Improvement Forum Calls (recorded)
• Inorganic Data Auditing (webinar series)
• Organic Data Auditing (webinar series)
• Why is Data Auditing Important (webinar series)
• How to Write a Laboratory Quality Manual
• Crosswalk of Regulations and Guidance Affecting Laboratories—Sorted by QSE
• Quality Manual Template

• QI and Performance Management Tools (MN Dept. of Health)

• Quality Tools A to Z
• Control Chart
• Pareto Chart
• Fishbone/ Ishikawa (Cause and Effect) Diagram
• Histogram
• Scatter Diagram
• Stratification
• Check Sheet/Defect Concentration Diagram

• GOOD Test Portions - Guidance on Obtaining Defensible Test Portions Training Module (June 2020) [Audio Transcript available]
• GOOD Test Portions (2018)
• Journal of AOAC International (JAOAC) Special Issue on Representative Sampling for Food and Feed Materials: A Critical Need for Food/Feed Safety (March/April 2015) 
• GOODSamples(2015)-Guidance on Obtaining Defensible Samples

• FAO Laboratory Internal Audit Tool for ISO 17025 Testing Laboratories
• Laboratory Internal Audit Plan

For documents that adhere to a specific standard (2005 v. 2017), visit our ISO/IEC 17025 2005 Document Repository page, where you'll find resources pertaining to:

• 4.1 Ethics
• 4.3 Document Control
• 4.4 Contract Review
• 4.5 Subcontracting
• 4.6 Purchasing Services and Supplies
• 4.7 Customer Service
• 4.8 Customer Complaints
• 4.9 Quality Event Management
• 4.10 Improvement 
• 4.11 Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action
• 4.12 Preventive Action
• 4.13 Record Control
• 4.14 Internal Audits
• 4.15 Management Review
• 5.2 Training and Competency
• 5.3 Accommodations & Environmental Conditions
• 5.4 Validation-Verification
• 5.4.1 Method Deviations
• 5.4.6 Measurement of Uncertainty
• 5.5 Equipment
• 5.6 Traceability
• 5.7 Sampling
• 5.8 Test Item Receipt/Handling
• 5.9 Control Charting
• 5.9 Proficiency Testing
• 5.10 Review and Approval of Data
• ​FDA ISO CAP In-Person Meeting, May 2014
• FDA ORA Documents
• Master Lists

• Quality Manuals

For documents that adhere to a specific standard (2005 v. 2017), visit our ISO/IEC 17025 2017 Document Repository page, where you'll find resources pertaining to:

• 4.1 Impartiality
• 4.2 Confidentiality
• 6.2 Personnel
• 6.3 Facilities and environmental conditions
• 6.4 Equipment
• 6.5 Metrological traceability
• 6.6 Externally provided products and services
• 7.1 Review of requests, tenders and contracts
• 7.2 Selection, verification and validation of methods
• 7.3 Sampling
• 7.4 Handling of test or calibration items
• 7.5 Technical records
• 7.6 Evaluation of measurement uncertainty
• 7.7 Ensuring the validity of results
• 7.8 Reporting of Results
• 7.9 Complaints
• 7. 10 Nonconforming work
• 7.11 Control of data and information management
• 8.2 Management system documentation (Option A)
• 8.3 Control of management system documents (Option A)
• 8.4 Control of records (Option A)
• 8.5 Actions to address risks and opportunities (Option A)
• 8.6 Improvement (Option A)
• 8.7 Corrective action (Option A)
• 8.8 Internal audits (Option A)
• 8.9 Management reviews (Option A)

• ISO Training Providers, December 2025
• ISO References and Resources, June 2025
• Other ISO Available Training and Resources, December 2025