IAF published a new Mandatory Document IAF MD 5:2008 Duration of QMS and EMS Audits (Issue 1, issued on 1 February 2009; Application from 1 May 2009)

A list of Accreditations Awarded in 2008

ISO 9001:2008 has been published and has been available from the 13th November 2008.

Tom will retire from INAB, today (28th November 2008) after serving almost forty years in the public service. Seventeen of these forty years were in INAB with the last ten years as manager of INAB.

In 2000 the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) produced a publication G12:2000, Guidelines for the Competence of Reference Materials Producers, and in 2004 ILAC at its General Assembly adopted the following resolution: