NABL, ISO/IEC 17025:2017
Certificate TC-8841. Chemical, biological and mechanical testing across food, water, environment, pharmaceutical and material groups. Valid to 14 March 2028.
1,450+ methods on scope. Annexure issued with every quotation.
Quality, accreditation and impartiality
Our scope, our impartiality arrangements and our proficiency testing record, set out plainly, because the questions an auditor asks should have answers you can read before you call us.
FSSAI notified laboratory
NL-MH-0192. Notified under Section 43 of the Food Safety and Standards Act for the analysis of food samples, including regulatory and surveillance samples.
Scope covers all major food categories under FSS Regulations.
ISO 9001:2015
QMS certification for the provision of analytical testing, sampling and technical reporting services. Surveillance audited annually.
Covers client servicing, complaint handling and continual improvement.
APEDA recognition
Recognised for residue monitoring of agricultural products destined for export, including the basmati rice and grape residue monitoring plans.
MPCB approval
Approved for environmental monitoring in Maharashtra, effluent, ambient air, stack emissions and noise under consent-condition reporting.
BIS recognised laboratory
Recognised under the BIS conformity assessment scheme for specified product categories including packaged drinking water and selected consumer goods.
Please note: all certificate numbers, validity dates and scope claims on this page are illustrative placeholders for a demonstration website. Replace them with verified accreditation details, and never publish an accreditation claim you cannot evidence with a current certificate.
Policy
Impartiality and confidentiality
The commercial pressure on a testing laboratory is not usually dramatic. It arrives as a phone call asking whether a number could be “looked at again” because a container is waiting. Our answer to that is structural, not moral.
- Risk register. Threats to impartiality, ownership, commercial, personnel, competitive, are identified, assessed and reviewed by the impartiality committee each year.
- Two external members sit on that committee and have access to complaint and deviation records without management filtering.
- No outcome-linked pay. No analyst, reviewer or technical manager has any part of their remuneration tied to a result, a pass rate or a client’s retention.
- Declared interests. Every employee declares related-party interests annually; anyone with a declared interest is excluded from the relevant work.
- Confidentiality by default. We do not confirm or deny that a company is a client, to anyone, including their competitors, buyers and the press.
- Legal disclosure. Where law compels disclosure, the client is informed unless the law prohibits us from doing so.
Complaints and appeals
Any client may appeal a result. Appeals are handled by personnel not involved in the original work, acknowledged within two working days, and closed with a written decision within fifteen.
An upheld appeal triggers a corrective action investigation, and where the error was ours, the retest is free and the original report is formally withdrawn and replaced.
Write to quality@pramananalytical.in, which reaches the Quality Manager directly and is not routed through client servicing.
Measurement uncertainty
Every quantitative result carries an estimated expanded uncertainty at a 95% confidence level, available on the report or on request. Where a result sits within the uncertainty band of a regulatory limit, we say so explicitly rather than letting a bare number imply a certainty it does not have.
See how this reads on an actual reportEvidence
Proficiency testing and internal quality control
Accreditation says a system exists. Proficiency testing says the system produces correct numbers. We publish ours to clients on request.
41 PT rounds
Participation across FAPAS, AOCS, NABL and private schemes in the last three years.
97.6% satisfactory
Results returning |z| < 2. Every outlier investigated and closed under corrective action.
QC every batch
Method blank, spiked recovery and certified reference material run alongside each analytical batch.
Internal audits
Full internal audit cycle annually, plus unannounced spot checks on high-risk methods each quarter.
| Control | Frequency | Acceptance criteria | On failure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certified reference material | Every analytical batch | Within certified range and uncertainty | Batch rejected and repeated |
| Spiked recovery | Every analytical batch | 70–120% depending on analyte and matrix | Investigation before release |
| Method blank | Every analytical batch | Below LOQ | Source of contamination traced |
| Duplicate analysis | 10% of samples | Within method repeatability limit | Both results re-examined |
| Instrument calibration | Per documented schedule | Traceable to national standards | Instrument quarantined |
| Analyst re-witnessing | Annual, per method | Blind sample within acceptance limit | Authorisation suspended, retraining |
Quality policy
Quality policy
Praman Analytical Laboratories exists to produce analytical results that are technically valid, impartially generated and clearly communicated. We will comply with ISO/IEC 17025:2017, apply only validated methods within our competence, decline work we cannot do properly, report results exactly as measured regardless of commercial consequence, and treat every client’s information as confidential without exception. Approved by the Managing Director · Reviewed annually
Audit us before you appoint us
Send your quality questionnaire, ask for our scope annexure, or come and audit the laboratory in person. We would rather answer the hard questions now than in a dispute later.