Compliance and Accreditation

Our mission includes generating researches to meet international standards.

One of our success stories is AAALAC Accreditation. We awarded full Accreditation for Excellent in Laboratory Animal Care and Used since 2013 to maintain high standards for animal care and use and commit to animal welfare in science.

This AAALAC accreditation guarantees the quality of all aspects of the NLAC-MU animal care and use program, with a focus on animal care and user policies including IACUC and occupational health and safety program, Animal husbandry veterinary medical care program and physical plant.

In addition, to ensure and enhance standard systems guaranteed by our accreditation ISO 9001: 2015 (International Organization for Standardization) we use quality assurance for operation systems which cover the entire center activities.

With a number of qualified and well-trained special scientists and technicians who specialized in laboratory animal sciences, to maintain occupational health and safety management best practice, we has been awarded successfully ISO 45001:2018 accreditation. This certification confirms our commitment to continuously improve the safety and security of our staff through training, reporting and monitoring by focusing on our effort toward building and maintaining professional standards.

NLAC comply with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Good Laboratory Practice (GLP): OECD GLP. We provide toxicity testing in pharmaceutical, insecticides, and pesticides.

To be the monitoring center of laboratory animals we provide various services to maximize customer satisfaction. Our research facilities and laboratories also participate in the ICLAS Laboratory Animal Quality Network which benefit additionally to our clients for health monitoring program.

MUQD and ICS are the assurance quality system belongs to Mahidol University for the quality development aspect including administrations, academics, researches, academic services, and art & cultural care system. The purpose of both programs is to elevate the quality system followed by the University strategies particularly human resources development, internal control & risk assessment, and self assessment. NLAC-MU is now annually preparing institutional strategies planning, self assessment report, and internal control structure & risk assessment report followed by the University guideline.