by Christopher Paris | Feb 8, 2019 | News, Services
As ISO 9001 certification dies on the vine, the victim of an increasingly corrupt certification system and a decreasingly useful standard, companies are looking for alternatives. ISO 9001 was never intended to guarantee quality, sure, but the fact that illegal drug...
by OQRI | Feb 8, 2019 | News
Oxebridge has updated its ISO 17025 implementation program to reflect the latest edition of that standard, ISO 17025:2017. The new standard and aligned Oxebridge program add increased control of risks, as well as address new concepts. ISO 17025 is intended to be used...
by OQRI | Jan 25, 2019 | News
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has “scrapped” a survey it circulated for feedback on updates to the IAF’s mandatory audit duration after Oxebridge circulated the survey to actual ISO 9001 user organizations. The IAF and the...
by OQRI | Jan 19, 2019 | News
An analysis of the current roster of members of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO TC 176, the official US delegation that authors the ISO 9000 family of standards, shows a hemorrhaging of participants since the ISO 9001:2015 standard was released. In...
by OQRI | Jan 16, 2019 | News
Dr. Iñaki Heras-Saizarbitoria, a researcher with the Universidad del País Vasco in the Basque Country, has completed a study on the validity of ISO 9001 certificates worldwide, and has determined that the bulk of certificates coming from China are not to be trusted....
by OQRI | Jan 12, 2019 | News
Nicolas Fleury, the current Deputy ISO Secretary-General and former Acting Secretary-General, received an “Honorary Professor” credential from Qingdao University in the People’s Republic of China during a 2018 conference in which ISO lent official...
by OQRI | Jan 11, 2019 | News
ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica once led the Chilean customs agency which was later accused of facilitating tax evasion, contraband importation and drug trafficking due to incompetence and understaffing. Mujica himself was criticized for having landed the...
by OQRI | Jan 9, 2019 | News
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is shuttered as an effect of the Trump Shutdown of the US Federal government. The President and Congress are in their third week of shutdown over a demand by President Trump to build a massive wall between...
by OQRI | Jan 9, 2019 | News
BREAKING: A Florida court has thrown out six of seven counts made by ASQ Section Chair William Levinson in his defamation lawsuit against Oxebridge and its founder Christopher Paris. All six of the denied counts were related to defamation. A seventh count, related to...
by OQRI | Jan 2, 2019 | News
The website of the Chair of the 2019 ISO 9000 World Conference, operated by the American Quality Institute (AQI) is falsely claiming his consulting company bears AS9100 “accreditation,” among other ISO certifications. Robert Freeman, owner of the...
