Laboratory Services Division of SLSI has become a distinctive laboratory in the country, that being the only state laboratory established by the mandate to test products, commodities, and materials for the purpose of furthering the practice of standardization and, quality assurance and improvement. Further, by virtue of this being the laboratory attached to the National Standards Body (NSB), it is benefited in many ways which would in turn strengthen its technical services rendered to the industry and commerce and to the nation as a whole.

Laboratory Services Division of SLSI, being the National laboratory established for the purpose of promoting the practice of standardization and, quality assurance and improvement, it offers comprehensive laboratory services such as;

• Compliance testing for a wide spectrum of consumer products, commodities, and materials according to national/international standards,
• Technical training on laboratory testing, good laboratory practices and quality assurance of test results, etc. (customized technical trainings based on the requirements of individual persons or institutions).

In addition, the laboratory staffs participate in Technical Evaluation Committees of external institutions and share their expertise technical knowledge for the betterment of the concerned processes.

These laboratories have established good quality control procedures for monitoring the validity of test results through the use of standard materials, updated test methods, calibrated precision equipment and also through participation in external proficiency testing programmes. In addition to that, Laboratory possess highly competent technical staff and their knowledge is updated time to time by providing laboratory related training both locally and internationally.