About the journal

An education project from Easiest Labs. We follow the paperwork: what an accredited lab checks, what a certificate says, and why each run should leave a record behind. Every piece here stands on published standards.

Easiest Labs publishes short, plain-language pieces on the practices that make a laboratory result trustworthy: how an accredited laboratory works, what a certificate of analysis states and how to read it, what material grades and labels mean, and how storage and transit conditions affect what has been measured. The writing is grouped into four topics — Testing, Documentation, Materials and Storage — and every entry is dated and kept in the archive.

Each piece rests on published standards and guidance: ISO/IEC 17025 for laboratory competence, ISO 17034 and the ISO Guide 30 series for reference materials, the ICH quality guidelines for validation and stability, GMP and GDP regulations for records and distribution, and the ALCOA data-integrity principles. Where a piece describes a practice, it is a practice those documents describe; where it draws a distinction, the distinction is one the standards draw.

The journal is published by Easiest Labs and written by a small editorial desk, signed collectively as “Easiest Labs desk.” How the desk sources its pieces and handles corrections is set out on the editorial standards page. Questions, corrections and suggestions for topics are welcome at the contact page.