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The Global Gold Standard for Hygienic Design: Unpacking 3-A Sanitary Standards
In the complex world of food, dairy, and pharmaceutical processing, one name stands out for ensuring equipment safety and cleanability: 3-A Sanitary Standards (3-A SSI). What began as a collaborative...
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...
Driving Climate Change Action: The Crucial Role of the Conformity Assessment Industry
Gigabytes and gigabytes of ‘Information’ and ‘Ideas’ are all over defining all that businesses and individuals are convinced about. The Conference of Parties (https://www.cop28.com/) number 28 happening here in Dubai,...
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...
Regulatory Complications with Spare Parts
In the world of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE), regulatory requirements are complicated, confusing and seemingly ever changing. For this article, I will be explaining requirements for laboratory equipment, industrial...
Is your ISO 9001 certificate authentic
ISO 9001 for quality management systems is arguably the most popular standard globally with nearly 885000 certificates worldwide as per ISO Survey 2019. Published in 1987 and touted as a...
Translating Safety Critical Information for Global Compliance
As a regulatory subject matter expert, on Electronic and Electrical Equipment, I have seen an increase in confusion over global translations for various product information. This includes, but is not...
Not Always What It Seems
The difference between IEC Reports and CB Scheme Reports/Certificates With this new drive towards leading edge electrical laboratory and medical solutions, manufacturers must maintain high quality Technical files on each...
Quality and Leadership
World Quality Day is celebrated on 14th November and this year is special as it marks 100 years of ‘Quality’. Well, what I mean is, it was in 1919 at...
Global Distribution – Electrical Equipment Compliance Responsibilities
“We simply ship someone else’s product. It’s not our responsibility to make sure the product is in compliance.“ This thought process comes up quite often when talking about electrical equipment...
Fire resistance test of timber doors
Fire resistance is the ability of a closure to meet the requirements of integrity (E), integrity and isolation (EI1 or EI2) or integrity and radiation (EW) for a specific period...
California Proposition 65 for consumer products
In a complex and ever-evolving chemical regulatory landscape, it is very important to ensure accurate and sustained chemical product compliance. Chemicals can contribute significant value to products; however, they require...
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...
Misunderstanding the CE mark
Reducing potential liability and increasing quality assurance with electrical industrial/laboratory equipment One day, a great idea comes to you. Your mind is made up, your idea is churning, and senior...
Standards Of Living
The first line written by someone on Wikipedia says, ” An individual’s or a socioeconomic class’s standard of living is the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available...
Measurement of Mass under the SI Units
C.P. (Chuck) Ramani, P.E, CBO April 4, 2019 Today, almost all nations of the world use the SI (metric) system of measurements that includes kilogram for mass, the meter for...
Technical Regulations – South American Perspective
During the past decades, many countries realized that conformity assessment can be a good method to regulate markets. A market can be regulated to offer safe and/or efficient products to...
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