The International Commission on Trichinosis has recommended that all laboratories that examine samples of pork, meat of other animals and game for Trichinella larvae be included in the quality assurance system for examinations, in the same way as EU member states, because achieving the reliability of the findings of each individual laboratory is ensured only by introducing the ISO 17025 laboratory standard, so the introduction of this international standard for testing laboratories, according to the new food safety regulations, is an obligation for every testing laboratory. However, in some endemic areas of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, due to cultural specificities, pig slaughter outside slaughterhouses (in households) is common, where owners are referred to meat testing laboratories for Trichinella larvae, within local veterinary organizations, for which ISO 17025 accreditation is too expensive. In order to make this service accessible to the population, even EU regulations have made a derogation, or exception, from the obligation of accreditation for Trichinella testing laboratories within veterinary organizations and small slaughterhouses (EU Regulation 2016/1843), but with the condition that their staff receive additional education and participate in accuracy and professionalism testing, organized by the national reference laboratory for trichinosis. This derogation was initially temporary, and has been permanent since December 2019 (EU Regulation 2017/625, Article 40(1)(a)).

The requirement for the competence of testing laboratories for meat control for Trichinella larvae has been taken over in the Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Regulation on measures for the suppression and eradication of animal trichinosis (Official Gazette of the Republika Srpska 44/10) and the Regulation on the method of conducting searches for the presence of Trichinella in meat (Official Gazette of BiH 56/11, 4/13), which stipulates that, as of 01.01.2013, veterinary organizations that test samples for the presence of Trichinella larvae in meat must be appropriately trained and regularly participate in the quality control program for testing samples. For this reason, VIRSVB, as the reference laboratory for trichinosis in the Republika Srpska, holds training sessions for veterinary doctors who test meat for Trichinella larvae, in accordance with the above regulations and the real need for veterinary doctors from laboratories that test meat for Trichinella in veterinary organizations and slaughterhouses in the Republika Srpska to be additionally educated about various testing methods, critical points of these methods, and the risks they should pay attention to, entering into a binding relationship with clients from whom they take meat samples that were not sampled by professional and trusted persons. The training has been organized once a year since 2013.