Jose Gregorio Rois Zúñiga, Secretary General of Corpoguajira, Resolution receives Environmental Laboratory Accreditation, by Dora Galvis, Officer of IDEAM

The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies – IDEAM-, He granted the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Corpoguajira to produce quantitative physical and chemical information for environmental analysis required by the Corporation, under the guidelines of the NTC-ISO / IEC 17025 "General Requirements Proficiency Testing and Calibration Laboratories", version 2005.

"It is very satisfying for us this new achievement of Corpoguajira, the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation evidence that we are working correctly by implementing and improving the quality management system, as stipulated in the standard, We also offer greater reliability in the data generated and fully satisfy the needs of users ", Pinto Jaime Bermudez stated, Director –It- of Corpoguajira.

Accreditation was granted by Resolution 1067 of 2012, issued by the IDEAM, through the same Corpoguajira Laboratory studies can advance at different array variables water and air, including electrical conductivity, closed reflux colorimetric and, total suspended solids, sampling for the determination of total suspended particles and particulate matter as PM10.

The validity of the resolution is three years, period in which the Environmental Laboratory, You must meet and maintain the conditions under which obtained the Accreditation.

Today are part of the Laboratory of Corpoguajira, Jaiker Gómez Sierra, Specialized professional functions Technical Director; Lianis Charry Molina, Quality manager; Mayra Moscote, Analyst; Manuel Pinto Brito, Analyst and Javier Calderon, Responsible for Air Quality.

IDEAM, It is the competent institution to establish referral systems for Accreditation and Intercalibration Analytical laboratories whose activities are related to the production of physico-chemical and biotic environmental data throughout the Republic of Colombia.