The LCBO has a reputation for having a good quality assurance program. How do you test the alcoholic beverages to be sold in Ontario?
In the interests of consumer protection, LCBO Quality Assurance conducts more than 490,000 laboratory tests on more than 22,000 different beverage alcohol products and tastes more than 6,000 products each year. This ensures products purchased and sold by the LCBO are safe for consumption, good quality, authentic and compliant with federal and provincial standards for composition, labelling and packaging. The LCBO was the first liquor jurisdiction in the world to be doubly accredited to the 2000 version of the ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 certification, the standard specific to testing laboratories. (These are accreditations of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, based in Geneva, Switzerland.) Please note: All data as reported in the LCBO Annual Report for fiscal 2008-2009.
