This Code of Ethics of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC)" focuses on three targets of duty and it is structurally based on the principles delineated in the Belmont Report created in 1978 by the then U.S.A. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioural Research; its principles also being equally valid for diagnostic medical laboratory work for humans, both then and now.
The "Code of Ethics of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC)" is authored by the IFCC Taskforce on Ethics and it has been Reviewed & Approved by the IFCC Executive Board.