Accreditations & Compliance

Certified Precision in Veterinary Biotechnology

Our services follow ISO international standards for quality and management, ensuring high qualification of technicians, equipment, and procedures to guarantee absolute accuracy, reliability, and traceability of results.

100% Accuracy in International Proficiency Testing since 2013

National Recognitions

Lab Status

DGAV — Direção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária

Equigerminal is recognized as a National Reference Laboratory for horse diseases by the Portuguese National Authority for Animal Health (DGAV).

Since 17 / 08 / 2017

ISAG — International Society of Animal Genetics

Recognized as ISAG Rank 1 since 2015 for Horse Genetic Parentage Testing — International Horse (Equus caballus) STR DNA Typing Comparison Test.

Since 2015

International Proficiency Testing

External Quality Assessment

VETQAS

APHA's independent, accredited, proficiency testing (PT) service. ISO/IEC 17043 accredited and a market leader in the provision of PT schemes for veterinary laboratories, recognised by national accreditation bodies.

2013–2014 100%

2014–2015 100%

2015–2016 100%

2016–2017 100%

2017–2018 100%

2020–2021 100%

2021–2022 100%

QCMD

Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics — an independent International External Quality Assessment (EQA) / Proficiency Testing (PT) organisation primarily focused on molecular infectious diseases across 100+ countries.

2014 — Influenza Virus A & B 100%

2020 — Coronavirus EQA Pilot (CVOP20) 100%

ISAG — Animal Genetics

The International Society and Foundation for Animal Genetics, focusing on basic and applied research on molecular genetics. Rank 1 corresponds to 100%–98% absolute genotyping precision.

2015–2016 — Rank 1 100%

2016–2017 — Rank 1 100%

2018–2019 — Rank 1 100%

Governance & Transparency

Quality Control
and RDI Policy

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