📋 Method verification / validation template

Clause 7.2.1 of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 requires the laboratory to verify that it can properly perform methods before introducing them and to keep records of that verification (and to repeat it as needed when a method is revised). Clause 7.2.2 requires validation of non-standard methods, laboratory-developed methods and standard methods used outside their intended scope or otherwise modified, as extensive as needed for the intended use, and retention of records covering the procedure used, specified requirements, performance characteristics, results, and a statement of fitness for the intended use. Typical characteristics (selectivity, working range, trueness, precision, limits, robustness, uncertainty) are those commonly addressed in EURACHEM’s fitness-for-purpose guidance and in EURACHEM/CITAC CG 4; list only those that are relevant to the intended use. This template is a recording aid, not the text of the standard.