{"id":34078,"date":"2026-07-11T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=34078"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:17:12","slug":"anab-triples-down-on-false-claim-that-its-accreditation-assures-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/anab-triples-down-on-false-claim-that-its-accreditation-assures-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"ANAB Triples-Down on False Claim that Its Accreditation &#8220;Assures Quality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAB can&#8217;t stop committing fraud. Once again, its marketing team has repeated the debunked, false claim that ANAB accreditation in some way assures quality.<\/p>\n<p>This time it was in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/anab-ansi-national-accreditation-board_iso17034-referencematerial-rmp-activity-7481701584662601728-TkTY?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAQymeABcfCwSHlVEUUPE8chOK-_MieQjQQ\">LinkedIn post<\/a> for ANAB&#8217;s ISO 17034 accreditation service for reference material producers. For that post, ANAB even made a <em><strong>graphic<\/strong> <\/em>making the false claim, which is handy because it gives us something we can save for submission to a court later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anabassurancex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34080\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anabassurancex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want a fresh copy without my highlighting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1781646716814.jpg\">here it is<\/a>&#8230; in case, you know. For whatever reason.<\/p>\n<p>This is apparently taken from a blog post on the same subject going back to 2024, which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ansi.org\/anab\/what-is-iso-17034\/\">here<\/a>. That post, written by ANAB&#8217;s Online Marketing Specialist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexandra-schirn-msm-054200158\/\">Alexandra Schirn<\/a>, seems to be the origin of the false claim, at least as it pertains to 17034.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anabassurancex2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34081\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anabassurancex2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34082\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34082\" class=\"wp-image-34082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rdougleonard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ANAB Director R. Doug Leonard, ready to receive subpoenas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, we shouldn&#8217;t throw Ms. Schirn under the bus. She&#8217;s relatively new to this scene and her expertise is in web marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), not accreditation. But someone at ANAB must have let this post &#8212; and the subsequent materials around it &#8212; get published. I can guarantee, though, that if someone holds ANAB accountable to this post, <em><strong>ANAB itself<\/strong> <\/em>will be tossing her under said mass transit vehicle. They <em><strong>always<\/strong><\/em> blame the marketing department.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in her defense, that post will definitely ensure &#8220;<em>search engine optimization<\/em>&#8221; for attorneys seeking evidence of ANAB&#8217;s product liability!<\/p>\n<p>You see, here&#8217;s the problem for ANAB. Now they can be held <em><strong>legally\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>accountable to any single defective reference material that makes it to market, because they have told the world &#8212; <em><strong>for at least two years!<\/strong> <\/em>&#8212; that their accreditation &#8220;<em>assures the quality&#8221;<\/em> of those products.<\/p>\n<p>So, thank you very much, ANAB, for allowing me to add yet one more file to the archives here, for future use.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, to see yet more examples of these false claims by ANSI&#8217;s red-headed stepchild, but for <em><strong>other<\/strong><\/em> standards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/bold-claims-of-assurance-put-anab-in-grave-legal-risk\/\">click this post<\/a> from 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, if a single reference material is found defective, you can sue ANAB.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,226,181,968,8901,7733,8902],"class_list":["post-34078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-anab","tag-ansi","tag-iso-17011","tag-iso-17034","tag-reference-material-producer","tag-reference-materials","tag-rmp","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34085,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions\/34085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}