Good laboratory practice (GLP) for safety tests on chemicals

Any test facility which conducts, or intends to conduct, regulatory studies must comply with good laboratory practice (GLP) regulations when carrying out safety tests on:

The test facility must belong to the UK GLP compliance monitoring programme, run by the UK GLP Monitoring Authority (UK GLPMA). The programme is only open to facilities in the UK.

Test facilities that are contracted to work on part of a larger regulatory study should also usually be members of the compliance programme.

There may be exceptional circumstances when a part of a regulatory study may need to be contracted out to a test facility that is not a member of the compliance programme. In this case, the study director must make sure that GLPMA guidance is followed.

Apply to join the GLP compliance monitoring programme

Complete and submit a UK GLP compliance monitoring programme application form (MS Word Document, 747 KB) to the GLPMA.

The UK GLPMA reviews the application and provided the application requirements are met will approve your facility as a prospective member of the programme.

Within 12 weeks the GLPMA carries out an implementation inspection of your facility and systems to:

You must respond to any issues raised in the report giving details of corrective actions. Once the inspector is satisfied, the GLPMA accepts your facility as full member of the programme and issues a ‘statement of GLP compliance’.

UK GLP compliance monitoring programme members

All facilities within the UK GLP compliance programme should be able to provide a statement of compliance on request.

Email [email protected] for information about facilities not on the list.