Good Laboratory Practice (GLP): OECD Principles vs ISO/IEC 17025
Two different frameworks for two different questions — don't confuse them.
What GLP actually covers
Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) is a quality system for the conduct of non-clinical safety studies — the OECD Principles of GLP (and the regional adoptions, e.g. Australia's NICNAS/APVMA alignment, NZ's EPA adoption). It governs how studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded, and reported so that data supporting regulatory submissions (pharma, agrochemical, cosmetics) are reliable. GLP is about study integrity, not the competence of a routine test method.
GLP vs ISO/IEC 17025:2017
| Dimension | GLP | ISO/IEC 17025:2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Non-clinical safety studies | Testing & calibration competence |
| Question answered | "Is the study data trustworthy?" | "Is the lab competent to test/calibrate?" |
| Core artefact | Study plan + raw data + final report | Management system + uncertainty budgets |
| Region | OECD + AU/NZ adoptions | Global (ILAC mutual recognition) |
Which does your lab need?
- Routine testing / calibration for customers → ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation (the document set LabKitPro generates).
- Non-clinical safety studies for regulators → GLP compliance (study-plan and archive discipline).
- Both → many contract research labs hold 17025 for method competence and run GLP for the studies themselves.
How LabKitPro helps
If your path is 17025, set your context and generate the management-system documents — free 60-second diagnosis first. For GLP study conduct, the quality-manual and document-control procedures you generate are a useful foundation, but GLP's study-plan/archive rules are handled by your QA unit.
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