With a comprehensive and innovative portfolio, the company’s program is the right choice to boost your laboratory’s development and enhance your team’s performance.
Analytical accuracy is essential to ensure confidence in laboratory results, promoting safety and quality in care. This reliability is crucial across various fields, including clinical analysis, blood banking, veterinary diagnostics, microbiology, and physicochemical testing. Each analysis impacts important decisions that directly contribute to health and well-being.
That’s why participating in a Proficiency Testing (PT) program—also known as External Quality Assessment—is more than just meeting regulations; it’s a vital step toward ensuring technical quality and the reliability of your results.
Proficiency Testing (PT) that promotes analytical excellence
With 48 years of experience and a presence in over forty countries, Controllab offers Proficiency Testing (PT) — an essential tool for assessing the analytical performance of laboratories. PT is a key requirement for laboratory accreditation processes such as ISO 15189, ISO 17025, PALC-SBPC/ML, and DICQ-SBAC, as well as for complying with regulations like RDC 786/2023 in Brazil.
By participating in an external quality assessment conducted by a provider accredited to ISO/IEC 17043, laboratories align with international best practices, strengthen their reputation, and promote a high standard of quality.
Why Choose Controllab’s Proficiency Testing?
Controllab offers one of the most extensive portfolios in the world, with over 3,500 tests covering a wide range of sectors. In addition to clinical analyses, the program supports areas such as genetics, blood banks, water, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary diagnostics, food, effluents, and more.
This broad scope allows laboratories to expand their capabilities—from basic routines to specialized analyses—ensuring robust quality control aligned with global best practices.
Discover the key benefits of the program:
Continuous evaluation: regular assessments with annual targets, enabling the detection and correction of analytical deviations.
Multiple samples per round: help identify both systematic and random errors.
Exclusive and innovative controls: custom-made controls for specific systems, with multiple analytes at clinically relevant concentrations. Some controls are globally unique!
Digital microscopy: modules that leverage technology to enable the analysis of rare cases.
Data reporting for multiple systems: results can be submitted for all routine equipment.
Dynamic management insights and audit-ready processes:
strategic indicators help quickly identify tests that require immediate action. The system maintains a detailed, traceable history of all actions taken, centralizing information and streamlining audits.Regulatory compliance: tools and documentation that demonstrate adherence to regulatory requirements, making the compliance process faster, clearer, and more efficient.
Education and specialized technical support: ongoing, free training for lab professionals, along with exclusive forums for participants. More than 100 scientific and educational advisors and a multidisciplinary technical team provide assistance and resolve inquiries.
Marketing and recognition: exclusive materials such as the Quality Control Seal (Selo CQ) highlight your participation in the program to clients and partners.
Global adaptation: translated systems and instructions, with native-language support staff.
Additionally, Controllab maintains partnerships with leading scientific institutions, such as the Brazilian Society of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SBPC/ML), as well as other renowned national and international organizations—reinforcing the program’s technical excellence and credibility.
Integrated solutions for simplified management
In addition to Proficiency Testing, other tools are essential to ensure analytical quality. Managing multiple providers can be challenging. With Controllab, laboratories find all the solutions they need for quality assurance in one place—bringing more convenience, efficiency, and control to their daily operations.
Explore these solutions:
- Internal Quality Control: third-party (independent) controls, valued through interlaboratory comparison and with free access to CI ONLINE.
- Instrument Calibration: a wide range of services with fast and efficient turnaround times.
- Metricare: comparative indicators that support strategic and operational decisions, promoting continuous improvement and patient safety.
- Certified Reference Material: the largest range in Brazil, including innovative solutions not found elsewhere on the market.
- Reference Strains: a collection of NCTC® cultures with technical equivalence to ATCC®.
- Accreditation of Clinical Laboratories: with a standard internationally recognized by ISQua.
Join Controllab’s Proficiency Testing and raise the standard of your analytical routine
Participating in Controllab’s Proficiency Testing is an opportunity for your laboratory to stand out for its quality and excellence in analyses. The program is known for its high satisfaction rates, driving technical improvement with specialized support, innovation, and efficiency.
Be part of an internationally recognized program that helps laboratories achieve analytical excellence and strengthens their credibility with clients and partners. Talk to a Controllab specialist today!
