Inside ISO 17025 Deficiency Data from A2LA and ANAB [Whitepaper]
A2LA publishes its Top 10 deficiencies for ISO/IEC 17025, ANAB reports 548 nonconformities across 543 forensic testing and calibration assessments in 2025, and both bodies point at the same pressure. The findings that recur are not edge cases. Equipment, management review inputs, documented competencies, training records, and technical records all require continuous, retrievable evidence that paper-based and spreadsheet-based workflows cannot produce on demand.
This paper goes inside the data: the five failure modes A2LA names, why the same findings keep recurring across both datasets, and what a modern LIMS does to close the gap before the next reassessment lands.
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