As of Jan. 6, the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation is accepting applications for product-certification body accreditation. A2LA accreditation demonstrates that a product-certification body has proven its competency to perform specific product certifications or types of product certifications; and that its quality system is documented; that it’s fully operational, and that it addresses and conforms to all elements of ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996; that it operates in accordance with the quality system; and that it conforms to additional regulations established by A2LA.

The new accreditation service is based on A2LA’s assessment of a product-certification body’s performance, including procedures, staff competence and reporting. It’s available to all certification bodies including in-house services.

A2LA is dedicated to the formal recognition of competent testing-and-calibration laboratories, inspection bodies, proficiency-testing providers and reference-material producers. For more information, visit www.a2la.org.

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