Regulations Governing Laboratory Testing for Communicable Diseases and Management of Laboratory Testing Institutions Article 2

Terms used in this set of Regulation are defined as follows:1. a laboratory testing institution can be a local health authority agency, a medical care organization, or an academic or research institute, which engages itself in collecting and testing/diagnosing communicable disease specimens, and has been either designated, commissioned, or authorized by the central competent authority for doing so;2. a laboratory accreditation body is an organization capable of carrying out suitable inspection and assessment in order to certify the testing competency and quality of a laboratory to the international standards; and3. a laboratory proficiency test for laboratory competency refers to a process of comparing its own testing results to those of other laboratories to evaluate the testing or correcting capability of the target laboratory.