by OQRI | Dec 12, 2018 | News
Representatives of both the Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) have refused to respond to queries regarding the growing scandals related to Japanese companies falsifiying product testing data, which has resulted in...
by OQRI | Dec 10, 2018 | News
Paul Simpson, the incoming Chair o ISO TC 176 Subcommittee 2 (SC2) has launched a public LinkedIn discussion group, and users of ISO 9001 can communicate directly with the TC leadership. SC2 is responsible for the development of ISO 9001 and ISO 9004. The group is...
by Christopher Paris | Dec 5, 2018 | News
FLIR Surveillance, Inc. was charged by the US Dept. of State with at least 347 separate violations of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) and forced to pay a civil penalty of $30,000,000, in a span of breaches that reach back as far as 2008. The FLIR...
by OQRI | Dec 5, 2018 | News
As part of the company’s new “Solution Series” of White Papers, Oxebridge has released a proposal for a “Collaborative Standards Development Model.” The report has already been provided to the ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica and ISO...
by OQRI | Dec 4, 2018 | News
In 2017, Seiler Instruments and Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis MO) was charged by the US Dept. of Justice for violations of the Buy American Act when it used Chinese-made optics in weapons sights then sold to the US military. In addition, the US DOJ found Seiler had...
by OQRI | Dec 4, 2018 | News
The US accreditation body ANAB has announced that ANSI has taken over sole ownership, as former co-owner ASQ has sold its ownership stake. ASQ has co-owned ANAB since 2005, when the Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB) was split into the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation...
by OQRI | Dec 1, 2018 | News
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is at the heart of a scandal whereby two UK forensics labs were found to have manipulated test data, affecting tens of thousands of victims. The scandal has seen the arrest of employees of two...
by OQRI | Dec 1, 2018 | News
In September, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cited the Canadian firm Cardiomed Supplies Inc. with multiple regulatory violations, including serious basic deficiencies of the company’s quality management system (QMS). Despite this, Cardiomed continues...
by OQRI | Nov 30, 2018 | News
A French court has ordered the certification body TUV Rheinland to pay $2,082,000 in damages to women who were injured by defective breast implants sold by Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), an organization that TUV had certified under the European “CE Mark”...
by OQRI | Nov 28, 2018 | News
The certification body BSI granted CE Mark product certification for a spinal implant medical device that is now reported to be dissolving inside the bodies of patients, forcing them to have additional spinal surgeries. In addition, the resulting investigation has led...
