Company Overview

The Canadian External Quality Assessment Laboratory (CEQAL)is a Canadian Health care company with roots in academic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. It originated as a collaborative initiative of laboratory professionals in Canada and companies from the pharmaceutics, diagnostics and food industries.

CEQAL partners with its customers to develop and provide high quality products and services that support the quality objectives of clinical and laboratory medicine. The company designs and implements internal and external quality assessment programs that monitor performance, assure quality and promote the standardization of process. The company's proficiency testing (PT) products and systems are used in both Canada and the United States for both educational and regulatory purposes.

CEQAL's Reference Method Laboratory serves as an accuarcy base for its PT programs. This laboratory is a member of the Cholesterol Reference Method Laboratory Network - an international network of Reference Method Laboratories. Through this affiliation and certification, the company's laboratory has documented traceability for lipid measurements to the accuracy base at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States.

The company operates a number of other reference methods in its Reference Method Laboaratory. These methods are used for the assignment of 'target values' to PT quality control materials and calibrators.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: CEQAL Inc.

Number of Employees: 9

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

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• Medical Laboratories - Quality Control Systems

  CEQAL provides a broad range of external quality assessment (EQA) and proficiency testing (PT) programs that monitor the quality of testing in clinical laboratories in both Canada and the United States. It operates a Reference Method Laboratory which serves as an accuracy base for its external quality assessment programs. The company's systems have been designed to facilitate the standardization of test results and document traceability to the reference method accuracy base that operates within the company's Reference Method Laboratory. CEQAL's data management systems are unique to the industry. Its HealthMetrx system is a web based application that has been designed to support the delivery of CEQAL's PT programs. The HealthMetrx system provides all clinical laboratories that subscribe to the CEQAL's PT programs the opportunity of participating directly in the monitoring process through this internet application.

• Reference Method Laboratory

  The Canadian External Quality Assessment Laboratory (CEQAL) operates a Reference Method Laboratory. The Reference Methods as performed in this laboratory are used to assign 'target values' to calibrators and quality control materials. These materials are used by clinical laboratories and instrument manufacturers to establish a base of accuracy for the measurement of selected analytes. This Laboratory also serves an accuracy base for the standardization of testing in routine clinical laboratories and 'core' laboratories that are used in national and international clinical trials.

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