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Accreditation provides the marketplace confidence that your organization has a well-established quality management system producing reliable and accurate results. Accreditation is utilized globally by various industries to confirm traceability in results. Becoming accredited symbolizes integrity and competency within your organization which provides you a market advantage over competition. Accreditation is strongly utilized by regulatory agencies as a qualifying factor to accept organizations for specific programs or schemes.

Certificates are valid for a 2-year accreditation cycle.

Many organizations will apply for a smaller scope of accreditation initially and later expand to include additional conformity assessment activities. Scope expansions may occur at anytime during the accreditation cycle during routine assessments or alone. Organizations interested in a scope expansion should notify their Accreditation Program Assistant/Scheduler to receive the appropriate documentation to submit.