The laboratory of Food and Water Microbiology of the University of Navarra has renewed its accreditation as "laboratory of essay for the performance of microbiological analysis in food and water". The recognition is granted by the Entidad Nacional de accreditation (ENAC), the only national organization with public authority to do so.

The accreditation is the formal and public recognition of the technical skill , and is therefore a sure way of identifying laboratories that offer maximum reliability in their services. On the other hand, both the requirements established by the rule and the accreditation process itself favor the implementation and maintenance of the continuous improvement systems of the laboratory.

The laboratory of Food and Water Microbiology of the University of Navarra works under the management Quality System at research (SGCI), a system designed and maintained by the Quality Assurance Unit. The laboratory together with the QAU successfully passed the audit recently carried out by ENAC of agreement to the rule ISO/IEC 17025 for laboratories of essay, which establishes both the technical requirements and management that a laboratory must comply with in order to be accredited.

The process of accreditation involves an exhaustiveassessment of the requirements of management and technical laboratory as if it has staff qualified, the necessary equipment and infrastructures, if it applies methods and procedures of work validated and appropriate and if it ensures the traceability of measurements and calibrations. In other words, it means formal and public recognition of the technical skill . For this reason, more and more clients are requesting services from centers that have obtained this ENAC recognition.