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Flex­ible accreditation

In addi­tion, bilacon GmbH is accred­ited for further fields of appli­ca­tion which cannot be found in the annex to the certificate.

The accred­i­ta­tion certifi­cate repre­sents an extract from the entire spec­trum of accred­ited exam­i­na­tion methods of bilacon GmbH.

The bilacon has three cate­gories of flex­i­bility. In cate­gory II and I, repre­sented on the certifi­cate as **) and *) respec­tively, it is permitted on the part of the accred­i­ta­tion body (DAkkS) to include test methods in the accred­i­ta­tion without prior assessment.

For inclu­sion in the flex­ible accred­i­ta­tion scope, the following three require­ments must be met:

1. the new test method can be assigned to an existing chapter of the certifi­cate system, taking into account the measure­ment tech­nique and the matrix to be examined.

2. a complete vali­da­tion or veri­fi­ca­tion of the method using the matrix to be inves­ti­gated, including the deter­mi­na­tion of all rele­vant perfor­mance char­ac­ter­is­tics, among others, limit of detec­tion, limit of quan­tifi­ca­tion, preci­sion, true­ness and measure­ment uncer­tainty, must be available.

3. the accu­racy of the method is demon­strated by partic­i­pa­tion in an external profi­ciency test in the form of an offi­cial inter­lab­o­ra­tory compar­ison, inter­lab­o­ra­tory compar­ison or other option.

Flex­i­bility in the scope of accred­i­ta­tion has been applied for and demon­strated compe­tence in this area. All test methods used by the labo­ra­tory with refer­ence to accred­i­ta­tion are veri­fied or validated.

In addi­tion, test proce­dures can be included on the certifi­cate facility upon appli­ca­tion to the DAkkS, provided that the above-mentioned three criteria are met.

Further infor­ma­tion on flex­i­bility can be found in the instruc­tions for the certifi­cate system and in DAkkS Rule­book 71 SD 0 002.

A current overview of the entire spec­trum of testing – this includes accred­ited, non-accred­ited proce­dures as well as testing proce­dures in the flex­ible scope – is currently avail­able as a printout at the loca­tions of bilacon GmbH. We are currently working on providing you an online overview soon.

GMP+ CERTI­FI­CA­TION

The bilacon GmbH is a regis­tered GMP+ labo­ra­tory and analyzes feed samples for the crit­ical compounds pesticides,aflatoxins, heavy metals, fluo­rine and the sum of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs and non-dioxin-like PCBs.

Autho­ri­sa­tion

I. Autho­ri­sa­tion in accor­dance with the Infec­tion Protec­tion Act

In December 1992 the micro­bi­o­log­ical labo­ra­tory in Berlin was granted autho­ri­sa­tion to work with pathogens according to § 24 BSeuchG and/​or TierSeuchEVO. This autho­ri­sa­tion has been updated in accor­dance with § 44 of the Infec­tion Protec­tion Act.

II. Autho­ri­sa­tion for the micro­bi­o­log­ical and chem­ical analysis of drinking water

Since March 2005 the labo­ra­tory in Berlin and since March 2020 the labo­ra­tory in Rheda-Wieden­brück have been a testing body for the micro­bi­o­log­ical and chem­ical analysis of drinking water in accor­dance with §15 Abs. 4 TrinkwV2001. Sampling is included in the authorisation.

III. Autho­ri­sa­tion in accor­dance with the § 4 Tobacco Regulation

Since January 2004 the Special Analytics depart­ment has been autho­rised in accor­dance with § 4 Tobacco Regu­la­tion and is there­fore enti­tled under the § 3 Tobacco Prod­ucts Ordi­nance in conjunc­tion with Article 4 para. 1 of the EU Direc­tive 2001/37 / EC Smoke Analysis to deter­mine tar, nico­tine and carbon monoxide levels in ciga­rette smoke and perform inspec­tions on the infor­ma­tion on tar and nico­tine levels on packets.

IV. BNN authorisation

Since March 2015 bilacon has been recog­nised as a labo­ra­tory by the Feder­a­tion Asso­ci­a­tion for Natural Food and Goods (BNN) e.V. The recog­ni­tion refers to pesti­cides in fresh fruit and vegeta­bles, processed fruit and vegeta­bles, grains / cereals / oilseeds, tea / fruit teas / spices. (Certifi­cate)

V. Other authorisations/​approvals

• Sensory experts for the eval­u­a­tion of meat and deli­catessen prod­ucts (DLG Inspector Pass, 4 staff members)
• Sensory experts for the eval­u­a­tion of bread and biscuits (DLG Inspector Pass, one staff member)
• 21 approved samplers for drinking water