THE JAPANSE STATUS OF LABORATORY ACCREDITATION BASED ON FASTENER QUALITY ACT.

Since 1997, JAB (The Japan Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment) had started the activity of accreditation for the laboratory based on U.S. PL101-592: the Fastener Quality Act that was signed by President Bush on 1990. The number of accredit laboratories are 69 in Japan, 21 in Taiwan, 2 in Korea and 189 in U. S. A, as of 09/10/1998. The JAB accreditation encompasses the requirements of the ISO/IEC Guide 25, and the relevant requirements of ISO 9002. The purpose of ISO/IEC Guide 25, also had been harmonized as JIS Z 9325 'General requirements for the competence of calibration and testing laboratories 'mainly facilitates and promotes acceptance of calibration and test results between countries to avoid barriers to trade through as 'one stop testing'. The features and differences between Guide 25 and ISO 9000 will be clarify in this report.