Manual de calidad bajo la norma ISO/IEC 17025 para el laboratorio de procesamiento de alimentos de la Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias de la ESPOCH

Abstract

The present degree work was carried out in the food processing laboratory of the Faculty of Animal Sciences of Superior Polytechnic School of Chimborazo, where a quality manual has been developed under the ISO/IEC 17025 standard in order to determine the processes and the necessary responsibilities for the fulfillment of the quality requirements and elaborate the required documentation within the QMS. La methodology with which the research work was developed, began with the observation through a structured questionnaire to check compliance with the quality requirements based on ISO/ IEC 17025 and later with the analysis of the current situation of the laboratory, according to this was elaborated guidelines to develop the proposal of the quality manual which must detail the elements and the operation of the QMS comprehensively covers the documentation fulfilling the specified requirements with the references of ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/ IEC 17025, The purpose of this is to identify in which way: it documents, maintains and improves its Quality System, providing an infrastructure service, organization, legal identification, the person responsible for ensuring compliance with the policies, objectives and all the conditions described in the manual, is the technician in charge of the Laboratory. The established procedures are within a process approach for continuous improvement, concluding that the documentation and its proper handling were organized to carry out practices in the relative requirements to management and technical requirements, for compliance with quality regulations according to ISO /IEC 17025 NORM and it is recommended to use and implement the proposed quality manual and its documentation under quality system parameters.