Regulatory laboratory accreditation NABL Integrated Assessment 2026: How Testing Labs Should Prepare for Regulatory Body Requirements Updated: 13 September 2026 Short answer: NABL's integrated assessment programme provides a unified route in which testing-laboratory accreditation and the additional requirements of participating regulatory bodies can be assessed together. In August 2026 NABL amended NABL 127, the procedure for integrated assessment and regulator additional requirements, to Amendment 05, and NABL 154, the application form for integrated assessment of testing laboratories, to Amendment 07. Laboratories should therefore prepare against both ISO/IEC 17025 and the specific requirements of every regulator relevant to the scope they are seeking. A testing laboratory can be technically competent and still fail to satisfy a regulator-specific approval requirement. The reverse can also be risky. A laboratory may understand a re...