oklahoma department of agriculture laboratory services tanna kilpatrick quality assurance manager
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Oklahoma Department of Agriculture
Laboratory Services
Tanna KilpatrickQuality Assurance Manager
The Road to Accreditation
• Why are we working toward accreditation to ISO 17025? – Working toward umbrella system to satisfy
multiple programs– Decreasing revenues, decreasing budget,
increased need for efficiency
The Road to Accreditation
• What about the cost?– Major push toward compliance in FY13 when we
were awarded the FDA grant– Discontinuation of funds after the first year – Funded, accredited section of the lab
The Road to Accreditation
• Roadblocks and support – Funding is a problem• State of OK invested a lot of money to build a new lab
but funds are not available for accreditation• Proposal to legislature to increase funds
– Major source of support • Our Leadership!
– Buy-in was a problem• Initial resistance has been eased with training and
implementation of the umbrella quality system