Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It was stated in the contracts that the laboratories had to be International Organisation for Standardisation, ISO, accredited. There is a table on page 60 of the report which shows the difference in ISO and College of American Pathologists, CAP, accreditation standards. To me, there is a distinct difference between the two. Our contract asked for ISO accredited laboratories, but what we got were CAP accredited laboratories. It is claimed that they are of a equivalent standard, but the CAP accreditation standard might be what we term the yellow pack version. I think it would be Safeway in the United Kingdom. I have a background in science and it sounds like it is a distinctly lesser standard of accreditation. Am I correct that CAP and ISO accreditation standards are not the same?