RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fairfax Identity Laboratories (FIL), a business unit of Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market:CBTE) is pleased to advise the market that it has been granted international ISO 17025 accreditation of its DNA Forensic laboratory. This certifies that FIL has been audited and has met or exceeded all of the international standards for accreditation. The certification covers forensic casework, relationship, and CODIS offender database testing. The accreditation was received from Forensic Quality Services-International (FQS-I), the country’s longest established provider of ISO accreditation to forensic science testing laboratories. FIL has held FQS national accreditation since 1997. The new ISO17025 accreditation makes FIL eligible to bid on a much broader array of forensic contract opportunities both nationally and internationally.