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Ark. Code Ann. § 8-2-208

Accreditation — Revocation

Acts 1985, No. 876, § 6; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-1993.5; Acts 1993, No. 322, § 6; 1993, No. 440, § 6; 2017, No. 244, § 2; 2019, No. 910, §§ 2447, 2448.

(1) After a laboratory is accredited, the laboratory's accreditation may be revoked or suspended by the Division of Environmental Quality for: Knowingly falsifying any data submitted to the division or any data related to laboratory analysis;

(2) Knowingly making any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document issued by or sent to the division or related to laboratory analysis;

(3) Knowingly misrepresenting procedures or documentation used in sampling or laboratory analysis;

(4) Failing to comply with any one (1) or more of the following requirements under which the accreditation was issued: Methods or procedures pertaining to analytical techniques, quality assurance, recordkeeping, or reporting methods; or

(5) Facility, equipment, or personnel requirements; or

(6) Failing to achieve acceptable results for specific analytes, methods, or matrices for which it has been accredited.

(7) It shall be unlawful for any person: To knowingly falsify any data submitted to the division or any data related to laboratory analysis;

(8) To knowingly make any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document issued by or sent to the division or related to laboratory analysis;

(9) To knowingly misrepresent sampling procedures or methods used in laboratory analysis;

(10) To knowingly render inaccurate any accreditation issued under this subchapter; or

(11) To knowingly represent that a person is accredited when that person is not accredited.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.