Introduction

At the instance of laboratories, Federation for Development of Accreditation Services (FDAS),is created to grant accreditation to laboratories, as a non- government organization, under section 9(1) of the Haryana Registration and Regulation of Societies Act, Department of Industries & Commerce, Haryana, vide registration number HR/018/2019/03652, on 27th March 2019, which with its own legal identity, empowers FDAS to commence accreditation activities.

FDAS operates accreditation system to comply with ISO/IEC 17011: 2017, and its accreditation program would grant accreditation to testing and calibration laboratories as per ISO/IEC 17025:2017, and medical laboratories as per ISO 15189:2022. FDAS is committed to abide by the norms from international institutions like ISO, IEC, ILAC, APAC etc., where applicable, so that its accredited CABs are having demonstrated global equivalence and since 16th June 2023, FDAS is a Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) signatory/full member of Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC) for the scope of testing and calibration.