Orlando FL — In an email to Oxebridge as a follow up to its reporting on QSI Auditing and Certifications LLC, the Quality Council of India (QCI) confirmed that QSI is “misrepresenting” its accreditation by the Indian accreditation body NABCB.
Oxebridge reported that QSI was continuing to market itself as accredited by the US accreditation body ANAB, despite having had its accreditation stripped by ANAB in 2008. In that report, Oxebridge also discovered that QSI was claiming its US company was accredited by NABCB. Official records only show QSI’s Indian company — a separate legal entity — held NABCB accreditation.
QSI operates its US activities out of Orlando, Florida.
Writing for NABCB, which is managed by the Quality Council of India, Anil Jauhri confirmed, “This is a misrepresentation of NABCB accreditation. As a matter of policy we do not accredit [registrars] who are not legal entities in India – so even if QSI USA were to ask for our accreditation, it would not be granted.”
ANAB has confirmed to Oxebridge that it is looking into the matter separately.
Misrepresentation of accreditation violates accreditation rules for ISO 9001 registrars, and often violates international trademark and copyright laws as well, since the use of accreditation body logos is tightly controlled.
Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 35 years’ experience implementing ISO 9001 and AS9100 systems, and helps establish certification and accreditation bodies with the ISO 17000 series. He is a vocal advocate for the development and use of standards from the point of view of actual users. He is the writer and artist of THE AUDITOR comic strip, and is currently writing the DR. CUBA pulp novel series. Visit www.drcuba.world
