Earlier, Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) with the support of European Union (EU) and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) conducted the five-day training that concluded yesterday at Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI).

Azmal Hossain, director general of BSTI, formally handed over the certificates to 26 participants.

The participants included laboratory testing officers and scientists from different government and non-government research institutes.

International experts of UNIDO Khalid Saeed and Anne Graendsen conducted the training programme.

"The is for the first time that a training course on ISO/IEC 17025 for laboratory accreditation was conducted in the country," said KM Mostafa Anwar, national project coordinator of Quality Management System Component of UNIDO.

The training programme was conducted as part of a three-year 'Bangladesh Quality Support Programme (BQSP)' funded by EU and implemented by UNIDO.