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Action required All accredited proficiency testing (PT) providers shall review their quality management system against the requirements of the new standard and prepare for their assessment against this standard based on the...

Action required All accredited inspections bodies performing inspections according to SPE-1000 are required to provide transition documentation to SPE-1000-21 by May 2, 2022. In addition, all equipment and product conformity...

Action required All Management Systems Certification Bodies must now cease offering certification to ISO 9001:2008 and/or ISO 14001:2004 under their SCC accreditation. Affected customers Accredited management systems...

Action required All accredited Product, Process and Service Certification Bodies who are currently certifying organizations to CanadaGAP are required to transition to CanadaGAP Version 8.0 of the Program Management Manual by...

Action required Take note that the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) has released IAF MD 7:2023 IAF Mandatory Document for the Harmonization of Sanctions and Dealing with Fraudulent Behaviour earlier this year. Affected...

Action required Effective immediately, all laboratories must now refer to SCC Requirements and Guidance for Method Validation in Testing Laboratories and cease referring to CAN-P-1629 PALCAN Guidance For The Validation Of...

Action required All customers will be assessed against IAF MD 9:2023, Issue 5, Application of ISO/IEC 17021-1 in the Field of Medical Device Quality Management Systems (ISO 13485) (PDF) at their next office assessment, and...

Action required IAF MD 25:2023 Criteria for Evaluation of Conformity Assessment Schemes (PDF) is a new mandatory document issued by the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) for all accreditation bodies that are a signatory...

Action required Accredited management system certification bodies shall follow the new issue of IAF MD 11:2019, issue 2, version 2, for the application of ISO/IEC 17021-1 for audits of integrated management systems. Affected...

Action required Organizations that are already accredited to perform inspections against CSA Z7396.1 should be aware that the 2022 version of the standard has been published. Organizations that want to offer inspections...

Action required In April 2016, SCC announced the new guidelines for development and maintenance of ORDs. Subsequent to this, each RAAB was to identify the timeframe in which they would apply these guidelines. Effective...

Action required All SPE-3000 accredited Inspection Bodies (IBs) are formally required to transition to the new April 2019 version of SPE-3000 by July 31st, 2020. IBs will submit updated documentation, undergo knowledge...