The Saudi Accreditation Center, in cooperation with the General Department of Laboratories at the Agency for Agriculture in the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, held a workshop entitled (Laboratory Accreditation Services and Inspection Bodies), at the Ministry's headquarters in Riyadh. The workshop started with an opening speech, followed by an introduction to the Saudi Accreditation Center, a presentation of the laboratory accreditation service, the accreditation of inspection bodies and the mechanisms for applying for these services.The cooperation of the Saudi Accreditation Center with the General Administration of Laboratories at the Agency for Agriculture comes as it is the only national authority authorized to grant accreditation to conformity assessment bodies and out of its keenness to cooperate with the competent authorities to support its important role in raising the level and quality of services and products and their adequacy and increasing consumer confidence in them.