ACIL - American Council of Independent Labratories
ACIL is the trade association representing independent, commercial scientific and testing laboratories. Its members are professional services firms engaged in testing, product certification, consulting, and research and development. Affiliated membership is available to manufacturer’s laboratories, consultants, and suppliers to the industry. The association was founded in 1937 as the American Council of Commercial Laboratories. It was later incorporated in the State of New York as the American Council of Independent Laboratories.
The Independent Laboratories Institute (ILI)is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), scientific educational organization established in 1992 that is multi-disciplined and member-driven. Its goal is to provide quality training for the laboratory community, more specifically: The purpose for which the ILI is organized is to operate exclusively for educational, charitable, and research purposes and ILI currently has several significant initiatives under way, including the task of developing a national accreditation scheme for the independent testing of cannabis across the nation. This program is called the Cannabis Laboratory Accreditation Program (CLAP) ©.