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LabStats.ca Service Update (2025-12-08)

 

Effective immediately, LabStats.ca is closed and all proficiency testing activities have been discontinued.

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LabStats.ca was established as Ontario’s first accredited proficiency testing program for wastewater surveillance, and among the first of its kind worldwide. It provided laboratories with a trusted framework to benchmark performance, strengthen analytical capacity, and ensure credible results that informed public health monitoring and decision‑making. Over its operation, the program demonstrated that Ontario could lead in building world‑class infrastructure for wastewater surveillance Proficiency Testing.

 

Despite these achievements, Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) management has decided not to maintain accreditation for proficiency testing services, and as a result LabStats.ca will no longer be available. This decision was made at the management level; our team’s role was limited to technical implementation and program delivery.

 

We recognize the contributions of participating laboratories and partners, whose engagement helped establish Ontario as a leader in wastewater surveillance Proficiency Testing. Ending LabStats.ca at this stage represents the conclusion of a proven, functioning program, not the failure of its design or delivery.

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For any further inquiries, please direct your questions to Sangeeta Chopra (Vice-President, Innovation and Infrastructure Solutions) or Shelly Bonte‑Gelok (Director, Innovation, Process Optimization and Technical Services) in OCWA management.

Our team works across the "Dish With One Spoon Territory." The Dish With One Spoon refers to the treaty between the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, that bound them to share the territories and protect the land in what is now southern Ontario (from the Great Lakes to Quebec, and Lake Simcoe into the U.S.). It is our collective duty to take care of the Dish that nourishes all of us; only one spoon is used without knives because we must be peaceful.  Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers, have been invited to this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.  ​Our PT program originated within the Dish With One Spoon Territory, originally supporting labs across this region to improve and protect public health. Guided by the treaty's principles of peace, friendship, and respect, we strive to foster collaboration in our PT programs, ensuring mutual benefit and shared responsibility.

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by Ontario Clean Water Agency

Corporate Headquarters:

 

2085 Hurontario Street, Suite 500

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

L5A 4G1

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LabStats@ocwa.com

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Formerly

ISO/IEC 17043:2023
Accredited
Proficiency
Testing Provider

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