The Eurogentest Project and the role of ERNDIM 

The Eurogentest project aims to promote the proper utilisation and management of genetic services; harmonisation of accreditation and certification of genetic testing laboratories; establishment of procedures and guidelines for the validation of methods and technologies.

ERNDIM represents Biochemical Genetic Testing within the project and is currently engaged in the following activities. 

• harmonisation of existing and new schemes for EQA in Biochemical Genetic Testing and increase of coverage to the whole of the 25 EU countries.
• evaluation of the present state of participation in EQA schemes in EU25 to identify needs for  improvement and expansion by either expansion of capacity of existing schemes addition of new ones
• provision of a comprehensive directory of Biochemical Genetic Testing laboratories, emphasising participation in ERNDIM and other EQA schemes, and linked to other directories within Eurogentest.
• development and dissemination of guidelines for best practice for internal and external quality through meetings with national representatives of EU25 workshops. 
• development of measures to determine satisfactory performance and links to laboratory accreditation. 
• development of i) standard analytical guidelines to cover all groups of analytes relevant to IMD and ii) standard reporting procedures. 

Some of these aspects were addressed at the first Best Practice meeting of National Representatives of EU25 held on December 2nd, 2005 in Basel.

Last changed: 2008-02-07