What is Nata?
‘NATA’ is Australia’s national laboratory accreditation authority as well as the largest accreditation authority in the world. Paternity Testing Laboratories provides DNA testing in a NATA accredited laboratory (also accredited for compliance with ISO/IEC 17025). Regular NATA audits of the laboratory check all operations related to consistently producing accurate and dependable data. No paternity test should be done in a laboratory that has not been awarded NATA accreditation.
In his research paper entitled, “Characterization of the Tea Fungus Metabolites”(1996), Dr. Philippe J. Blanc includes the following: “A similar cellulose network floating at the surface of various fruit juices (namely coconut and pineapple) fermented by a symbiotic culture composed of Acetobacter xylinum and yeasts and named ‘nata’ is consumed in the Philippines as a delicacy (Lapuz et al., 1967; Dolendo and Maniquis, 1967).
The National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) is EPA’s ongoing comprehensive evaluation of air toxics in the U.S. EPA developed the NATA as a state-of-the-science screening tool for State/Local/Tribal Agencies to prioritize pollutants, emission sources and locations of interest for further study in order to gain a better understanding of risks. NATA assessments do not incorporate refined information about emission sources, but rather, use general information about sources to develop estimates of risks which are more likely to overestimate impacts than underestimates them. NATA provides estimates of the risk of cancer and other serious health effects from breathing (inhaling) air toxics in order to inform both national and more localized efforts to identify and prioritize air toxics, emission source types and locations which are of greatest potential concern in terms of contributing to population risk. This in turn helps air pollution experts focus limited analytical resources on area
The National Association of Testing Authorities Australia (NATA) is a comprehensive national laboratory accreditation system under which it prescribes the conditions to be met for accreditation and examines test facilities to ensure that their quality management systems and laboratory codes of practice conform with national and international test standards.
