Consumer Products
Understanding Accreditation
Based on insightful answers by Peter Unger Co-Founder – Executive Director ofInternational Quality Excellence in Infrastructure Systems, LLP (https://www.iqeis.com/) and Former CEO-A2LA (https://a2la.org/) / ILAC Chair 2011- 2016 (marked in...
Concepts of Functional Safety
Functional safety (FS) is a critical safety concept that is applicable across all Global industry sectors. It is fundamental to the enabling of complex technical systems used for safety related...
ISO/IEC 17065 Standard “Conformity assessment Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services”
Accreditation Bodies – which are signatory members of the IAF MLA (International Accreditation Forum Multilateral Agreement) – must have their accredited Product Certification Bodies according to the current ISO/IEC 17065...
Glancing at Technical Regulations in South America
After giving a general description/opinion about Technical Regulations in the first Post, I would like to make a quick review of main Technical Regulations (hereinafter TRs) which are implemented in...
Staying In Compliance
On average, most medium to large scale laboratory/industrial product manufacturers conduct certification with reasonable due diligence during a products release. Unfortunately, however, there are many companies that let the products...
Leveraging data for improved safety and compliance
We live in a world where “data is the new oil” or “data is capital” and many other variations on the theme that data is a valuable commodity. I agree...