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Midwest Research Institute's Kansas City Facility Receives ISO 9001:2000 Certification

Posted on: Thursday, 24 August 2006, 15:00 CDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Research Institute's Kansas City facility has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 certification from BSI Management Systems, a certification body for the International Organization for Standardization.

The ISO 9001:2000 certification signifies that MRI's quality management system meets specific requirements that demonstrate MRI's ability to:

* Consistently provide product and services that meet client and applicable regulatory requirements, and

* Enhance client satisfaction through the effective application of the quality management system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable regulatory requirements.

"Throughout its 60-year history, MRI has built a solid reputation for excellent scientific research by setting high quality standards and exceeding customer expectations," said Michael Helmstetter, Ph.D., MRI Senior Vice President and Director of Research Operations. "The ISO 9001:2000 certification is an endorsement of that long-held reputation and recognizes the team effort required to support processes and systems that are designed to deliver quality services and products time after time."

MRI registered the following activities for the scope of work included in the ISO 9001:2000 certification of its Kansas City facility: contract research that typically results in service-based products such as methods, instruments, prototype devices, chemical compounds and reports from research, design, development, test, evaluation, assessment, analysis and management activities in the areas including national security and defense; life and health sciences; agricultural and food safety; biotechnology; development and registration of agricultural products; efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products/services (human and animal), toxicological properties of chemical; assays for detecting food-born pathogens; coating technologies; electrical, mechanical, chemical, environmental, civil, transportation and systems engineering; bioengineering; electronics; medical electronics; software development; instrumentation enhancement; experimental design; fieldable laboratories; proteomics; chemical synthesis; sampling technologies; sampling and analysis, validation and ultratrace chemical analysis; mass spectrometry; chromatography; and chemical systems/analysis.

Helmstetter noted that MRI has also begun the ISO certification process at its Rockville, Maryland facility and will begin the process at its Palm Bay, Florida facility in the near future.

About Midwest Research Institute

Midwest Research Institute (MRI) is an independent, not-for-profit research institute that has conducted scientific research for government and industry since 1944. Programs span the areas of national/homeland security and defense, life sciences, chemical sciences, energy, engineering, and agriculture and food safety. MRI has managed and operated the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy since 1977. Headquartered in Kansas City, MO., MRI has additional laboratories in Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. More information is available at http://www.mriresearch.org/.

Midwest Research Institute

CONTACT: Linda Cook - Director of Communications of Midwest ResearchInstitute, +1-816-360-1943

Web site: http://www.mriresearch.org/

Source: PRNewswire

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