Anachem Pipette Service Centre of Excellence
The World’s First Gilson Authorised Pipette Service Centre of Excellence
Anachem is proud to have been designated the first official Gilson Authorised Pipette Service Centre of Excellence. This achievement means that in addition to being Gilson’s only authorised UK service partner, Anachem is able to display the exclusive Gilson "Centre of Excellence" logo. This logo is your seal of assurance that your Gilson pipettes are being maintained by an organisation that has been audited by Gilson to meet the manufacturer’s high standards and requirements. It ensures that the servicing & calibration of your Gilson pipettes is only carried out using original Gilson spare parts and that they are always returned to the manufacturer’s "as new" original specification for accuracy and precision. Consequently, it’s your guarantee that by using Anachem service & calibration you can continue to trust the success of your experiments to the Gilson pipette for many years.
Gilson’s own pipette calibration laboratory in France is accredited by COFRAC (Comité Français D’accréditation), the French organisation responsible for accrediting calibration laboratories. COFRAC is a full member of ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation) and it is one of many international accreditation organisations associated with it. This includes UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service).
ILAC is the world’s principal international forum for the development of laboratory accreditation practices and procedures, the promotion of laboratory accreditation as a trade facilitation tool, the assistance of developing accreditation systems, and the recognition of competent test facilities around the globe.
Laboratory Accreditation provides a means of determining the competence of laboratories to perform specific types of testing, measurement and calibration. It enables people who want a product, material or instrument to be checked or calibrated, to find a reliable testing or calibration service able to meet their needs. It also allows a laboratory to determine whether it is performing its work correctly and to appropriate standards.
Manufacturing organisations may also use laboratory accreditation to ensure the testing of their products by their own in-house laboratories is being done correctly.
Anachem was the first pipette calibration laboratory in Great Britain to be UKAS accredited, and has held this status for over eight years. Accreditation by an ILAC recognised body ensures that the calibration laboratory respects ISO 17025 requirements for its organisation and ISO 8655 requirements for its technical reliability concerning pipette calibration.
The Anachem Pipette Service Centre is considered as an independent metrological laboratory allowing it to issue calibration certificates for pipettes.
These certificates contain information relating to the pipette owner and the calibration laboratory, a test report, and a conformity certificate. The UKAS logo on the certificate proves that the measurements are linked to the International System Units in conformity with ISO 8655 and in a laboratory according to ISO 17025.
Very importantly, laboratory accreditation provides formal recognition to competent laboratories, thus providing a ready means for customers to access reliable testing and calibration services.
ISO 17025
Most accreditation bodies have now adopted an international guide, called ISO 17025, as the basis for the accreditation of their country’s testing and calibration laboratories to make it comparable to that of other countries.Such international agreements enable test data to be accepted between countries. In effect, each partner recognises the other’s accredited laboratories as if they themselves had undertaken the accreditation. This system of international mutual recognition allows test data accompanying exported goods to be more readily accepted in overseas markets. Test data are equivalent throughout the world because they are linked to the same metrological chain of international standard weights.
In addition to the ISO 17025, ISO 8655 gives technical requirements needed for calibrating pipettes, dilutors and dispensers. Gilson is the only pipette manufacturer offering such a rigorous level of metrology in establishing the manufacturer’s declaration of conformity.
(1) Note: An accredited laboratory follows ISO 17025 for its internal organisation and management and another standard for technical requirement, for instance ISO 8655 for pipette calibration. Consequently, accredited laboratories can be distinguished between themselves by the technical standards they follow.
