Quality Standards
🎯 Quality Standards at Equigerminal
✔️ 100% accuracy. Accredited lab, ISO standards, and ISAG Rank 1
Our services follow ISO international standards for quality and management, ensuring high qualification of technicians, equipment, and procedures to guarantee accuracy, reliability, and traceability of results. We assure that your test is performed under the top international quality standards. 🏆
Recognised as a National Reference Laboratory 🏅 for horse diseases.
Recognised as an International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) Rank 1 since 2015, for Horse Genetic Parentage Testing. 🐴
🔍 Quality Control and RDI Policy
🏛️ DGAV
Equigerminal is recognised as a National Reference Laboratory for horse diseases by the Portuguese National Authority for Animal Health (DGAV), since 17/08/2017.
🌟 100% Accuracy in International Proficiency Testing
Equigerminal has an excellent track record (since 2013) in International Proficiency testing/comparison tests networks, such as VETQAS, QCMD, and ISAG, with accuracy results of 100%. 🥇
VETQAS
Proficiency testing for veterinary laboratories
Vetqas is APHA’s independent, accredited, proficiency testing (PT) service provided by the APHA’s Quality Assurance Unit (QAU). Recognised by national accreditation bodies, it is ISO/IEC 17043 accredited and is a market leader in the provision of PT schemes for veterinary laboratories.
| Certificate of Participation | Accuracy |
|---|---|
| Certificate of Participation – VETQAS (2013-2014) | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation – VETQAS (2014-2015) | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation – VETQAS (2015-2016) | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation – VETQAS (2016-2017) | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation – VETQAS (2017-2018) | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation - VETQAS (2020-2021) | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation - VETQAS (2021-2022) | 100% |
QCMD
Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics
Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics (QCMD) is an independent International External Quality Assessment (EQA) / Proficiency Testing (PT) organisation. QCMD provides a wide-ranging quality assessment services primarily focused on molecular infectious diseases to over 2000 participants in over 100 countries.
| Certificate of Participation | Accuracy |
|---|---|
| Certificate of Participation – QCMD 2014 – Influenza Virus A & B | 100% |
| Certificate of Participation - QCMD 2020 - Coronavirus Outbreak Preparedness EQA Pilot Study (CVOP20) | 100% |
International Society for Animal Genetics
The International Society and the International Foundation for Animal Genetics (ISAG and IFAG) evolved from a series of annual workshops for comparing methods for detecting red cell antigens and variants of proteins to an organization focusing on basic and applied research on molecular genetics.
Equigerminal is awarded Rank 1* by the International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) since 2015, for Horse Genetic Parentage Testing - International Horse (Equus caballus) STR DNA Typing Comparison Test. 🏅
| Certificate of Participation | Accuracy |
|---|---|
| Certificate of Participation – ISAG – HCT (2015-2016) | Rank 1 |
| Certificate of Participation – ISAG – HCT (2016-2017) | Rank 1 |
| Certificate of Participation – ISAG – HCT (2018-2019) | Rank 1 |
Absolute genotyping Accuracy: Rank 1: 100%-98%; Rank 2: 97.9%-95%; Rank 3: 94.9%-90%; Rank 4: 89.9%-80%; Rank 5: Below 80% |
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