Required accreditation

Required accreditation. (1) All laboratories submitting data to the department for a covered program or generating data to determine compliance with a covered program, shall be accredited under this chapter for the fields of accreditation corresponding to the submitted or generated data, unless this chapter or a covered program exempts a test from requiring accreditation. (2) The department may not accept data from a laboratory that is not properly accredited under this chapter, except as provided in s. NR 149.11 . (3) The department may initiate enforcement action against a laboratory which maintains accreditations under this chapter but performs testing for analytes for which it does not hold the appropriate accreditation and for which the department offers accreditation when that data will be reported to the department. (4) A laboratory may not transfer its accreditation to any other entity unless the department expressly approves the transfer by the process specified in s. NR 149.14 (1) (a) .