Federation for Development of Accreditation Services(FDAS), India is a program to grant accreditation to CABs/Laboratories, as a non-government organization and in non-profit mode, and registered under section 9(1) of the Haryana Registration and Regulation of Societies Act, Department of Industries & Commerce, Haryana, vide registration number HR/018/2019/03652, on 27th March 2019, by The Registrar of Societies, Govt. of Haryana, India.

The management system of FDAS is as per ISO/IEC 17011:2017, and FDAS is committed to grant accreditation to Test, Calibration, and medical laboratories, as per respective international standards like ISO/IEC 17025:2017 / ISO 15189:2022 and ILAC/APAC norms. The commitment of FDAS is to abide by the norms from international institutions like ISO, IEC, ILAC, APAC etc., enabled it to become APAC MRA Signatory on 16th June 2023 and ILAC MRA Signatory on 28th August 2023, for testing and calibration laboratories. The achievement of FDAS to the gaining ILAC MRA Signatory status provides global equivalence to FDAS and to its accredited CABs/Laboratories.

The need for creating additional accreditation body for India must be seen in conjunction with the requirement of the country’s economy, which has about six lakh laboratories, consisting of about three lakhs testing laboratories and more than three lakhs medical laboratories, and aspiring to be the five trillion economy soon.