Canadian Association For Environmental Analytical Laboratories

The Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc.(CALA) is the non-profit Canadian laboratory accreditation body known for responsive and efficient quality assurance services. Our members participate in rigorous programs of inter-lab comparisons and on-site assessments based on international standards, and benefit from both workshop and web-based training opportunities. Our 5-year goal is to diversify our services while enhancing our position as Canada’s lowest-cost self-sustaining provider of internationally-recognized accreditation services.

National Celebration
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Celebrating the Transition from CAEAL to CALA
October 3, 2008

INTRODUCTION
CAEAL has changed its name to the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc. (CALA), in response to member desires for us to deliver more than accreditation, proficiency testing and training to environmental laboratories only. We are now known as CALA (pronounced KAY-LAH), but we are the same group of volunteers and staff that established and sustained CAEAL’s reputation for excellence.

NATIONAL CELEBRATION
74 Canadian laboratories will be presented with the documents that formally recognise their demonstrated competence between 6 and 10 October 2008.

Based on rigorous requirements contained in the international standard, ISO/IEC 17025 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, these laboratories have successfully demonstrated their continuing competence and have agreed to receive their new certificates as the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) celebrates a new name and a new mandate.

In 10 separate ceremonies to be held in Burnaby, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Ottawa, Fredericton, Halifax and St. John’s, volunteer CALA members from public sector and private sector institutions across Canada will present replacement certificates to the laboratories named in local announcements.

PRESS RELEASES
The following national and regional press releases have been distributed:

BACKGROUND VIDEOS
We've prepared four small Quicktime* video clips of CALA Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Rick Wilson, speaking on Celebrating the Transition from CAEAL to CALA:

Part 1 - Reflecting on CAEAL's Success (3 minutes)
Part 2 - Why the Change to CALA? (1:15 minutes)
Part 3 - The People of CALA - (:49 seconds)
Part 4 - A National Celebration (1:37 minutes)

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Part 1 - Reflecting on CAEAL's Success

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Part 2 - Why the Change to CALA? (1:15 minutes)

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Part 3 - The People of CALA - (:49 seconds)

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Part 4 - A National Celebration (1:37 minutes)

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