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  "name": "Specialty Labs Index Standards Bodies Cross-Reference",
  "as_of": "2026-07-14",
  "count": 15,
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      "abbr": "A2LA",
      "name": "American Association for Laboratory Accreditation",
      "notes": [
        "A US accreditation body that assesses testing and calibration laboratories against ISO/IEC 17025 and issues accredited scopes of testing.",
        "A US-based, ILAC-recognized accreditation body that audits and accredits testing and calibration laboratories against ISO/IEC 17025."
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        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/astm-accredited-testing-lab-buyers-guide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ANAB",
      "name": "ANSI National Accreditation Board",
      "notes": [
        "A US accreditation body (a subsidiary of ANSI) that accredits testing and calibration laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025, among other programs.",
        "A US-based, ILAC-recognized accreditation body (operated by ANSI) that accredits testing and calibration laboratories, certification bodies, and inspection bodies."
      ],
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        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/astm-accredited-testing-lab-buyers-guide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ANSI",
      "name": "American National Standards Institute",
      "notes": [
        "Coordinates the US voluntary standards system and accredits standards-developing organizations whose product standards many labs test against."
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "API",
      "name": "American Petroleum Institute",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes inspection and NDT-adjacent standards (such as API 510/570/653) referenced on petrochemical and pipeline in-service inspection work."
      ],
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        "ndt-testing-services-buyers-guide"
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ASM",
      "name": "ASM International",
      "notes": [
        "A materials-science professional society whose failure-analysis handbooks and reference materials are widely used by practicing failure analysts, referenced factually as an industry reference body, not an accreditor."
      ],
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        "failure-analysis-laboratory-buyers-guide"
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ASME",
      "name": "American Society of Mechanical Engineers",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, which includes NDT acceptance criteria referenced on many pressure-equipment and welding inspection jobs."
      ],
      "guide_slugs": [
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ASNT",
      "name": "American Society for Nondestructive Testing",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes SNT-TC-1A and CP-189, the widely referenced recommended practices for qualifying and certifying NDT technicians by method and level."
      ],
      "guide_slugs": [
        "ndt-testing-services-buyers-guide"
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ASTM",
      "name": "American Society for Testing and Materials",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes the consensus test-method standards (e.g. ASTM E8 for tensile testing) that most materials test reports are run and reported against.",
        "Publishes many of the referenced chemical test methods (e.g. ASTM D-series) used in materials and product formulations.",
        "Publishes the consensus test-method standards labs are assessed against; ASTM itself does not accredit laboratories.",
        "Publishes many US consumer and industrial product safety and performance standards (flammability, mechanical hazard, durability) referenced in product testing.",
        "Publishes fractography, metallography, and failure-investigation-adjacent test method standards referenced in failure analysis work."
      ],
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        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/astm-accredited-testing-lab-buyers-guide",
        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/how-to-choose-a-product-testing-laboratory",
        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/failure-analysis-laboratory-buyers-guide"
      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "EPA",
      "name": "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes the reference analytical methods (the '8000' and '200' series, among others) most environmental lab reports are run and reported against."
      ],
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        "how-to-choose-an-environmental-testing-lab"
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "IEC",
      "name": "International Electrotechnical Commission",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes international electrical and electronic product safety standards referenced by many national certification marks."
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ILAC",
      "name": "International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation",
      "notes": [
        "The international body whose Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) is the benchmark for whether a national accreditation body's credentials are internationally recognized.",
        "Sets the international mutual-recognition framework that determines whether a given national accreditation body's third-party lab accreditations are broadly recognized."
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "ISO",
      "name": "International Organization for Standardization",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes international test-method and management-system standards, including ISO/IEC 17025, the general competence standard testing and calibration laboratories are accredited against.",
        "ISO/IEC 17025 is the general competence standard environmental labs are typically accredited against, alongside their program-specific NELAP/state certification.",
        "ISO/IEC 17025 is the general accreditation standard chemical testing labs are assessed against for a specific, named scope of methods.",
        "ISO/IEC 17025 is the general international standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, used as the assessment basis by accreditation bodies worldwide.",
        "ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation is the technical-competence backing that should accompany a genuine third-party independence claim, though accreditation and independence are two separate things to verify."
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        "what-is-a-third-party-testing-lab"
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        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/how-to-choose-a-chemical-testing-lab",
        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/astm-accredited-testing-lab-buyers-guide",
        "https://specialtylabsindex.com/guides/what-is-a-third-party-testing-lab"
      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "NELAP",
      "name": "National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program",
      "notes": [
        "A cooperative accreditation program that recognizes state and other accrediting bodies which certify environmental labs to a common quality standard (TNI/NELAC standards)."
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "OSHA",
      "name": "Occupational Safety and Health Administration",
      "notes": [
        "Maintains the public list of Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs) authorized to certify certain product categories for US workplace and electrical-code compliance."
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "abbr": "USP",
      "name": "U.S. Pharmacopeia",
      "notes": [
        "Publishes chemical testing monographs and reference standards used for pharmaceutical and some dietary-supplement chemical testing, referenced factually where a lab's scope includes USP methods."
      ],
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      ],
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    }
  ]
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