The University of Barcelona's Service for the Analysis of Viruses in the Food Chain and Water Cycle (SAVCA) laboratory has obtained accreditation of the Spanish National Accreditation Body (ENAC), in accordance with the ISO 17025 standard, a recognition that represents a fundamental stap in guaranteeing the quality and reliability of the analysis of viruses in food. The SAVCA laboratory is the second UB centre to obtain this accreditation - the first was the Environmental Radiology Laboratory of the Faculty of Chemistry - as a result of intense commitment to meeting ENAC's demanding requirements.
The SAVCA laboratory, which belongs to the Enteric Virus Group of the UB's Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and is part of the Nutrition and Food Safety Research Institute (INSA) has obtained ENAC accreditation in accordance with the requirements established in the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard (accreditation 520/LE2869). This accreditation is an official recognition of the technical competence and quality of the laboratory's processes, ensuring that the results obtained are accurate, reliable and internationally comparable.
