Official laboratories in the areas of food contact materials, food additives, food enzymes, flavourings and feed additives
Article 2
The competent authorities may designate laboratories which do not fulfil the conditions referred to in Article 37(4), point (e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 in relation to all the methods of laboratory analysis, test or diagnosis they use for official controls or other official activities, as official laboratories in the areas of food contact materials, food additives, food enzymes, flavourings and feed additives provided that: (a) those laboratories have a quality assurance system in place to ensure that reliable results are obtained from the use of methods of laboratory analysis, test or diagnosis outside the scope of their accreditation and (b) the non-accredited methods used by those laboratories are characterised by the relevant criteria to the areas covered under this article set out in Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2017/625.