Q. What is accreditation?

A. Is a third-party attestation that relates to assurance conveying formal demonstration of its competence to carryout specific assessment tasks (e.g. ISO/IEC 17011, also read definition 3.1). As a Public Trust we carryout verifications to assure adhere to legal obligations and regulations with competence and impartiality, and to this effect applying benchmark such as ISO/IEC 17011.

Further, this benchmark provides for accreditation and recognition protocols in managing operations for public interest assuring that competence through impartiality is maintained. Signatories and bearers carry numerous choices under accreditation and recognition programs. The accreditation and recognition to regulatory affairs practices are equally available to the private sector, government, or academic / educational institutions.

As a Public Trust, signatories and bearers need to witness the carryout of our Charter as this relates to purpose byway of regulatory affair practices, accreditation and recognition is:

• For specific entities, these need to apply guidelines as set forth by the GOB by demonstration of competence with impartiality in adhering to internationally recognized and generally accepted benchmarks. These internationally recognized and generally accepted benchmarks includes, among others, ISO/IEC 17020, ISO/IEC 17021, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/TS 22003 and laboratories ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 15189 and ISO/IEC 17024;
• Others may include attestation of regional or national regulations and codes of federal regulation (CFR), E.g. 42 CFR, 21 CFR Part 110 (GMP), 21 CFR Part 120 (HACCP related), 21 CFR Part 820, HIPAA and many others;
• Through the previous organizations bearing accreditation, within the private and public sectors, can achieve QMS ISO 9001, EMS ISO 14001, FSMS ISO 22000 and HACCP, QMS MDD ISO 13485, QMS Healthcare (QMSHC), BS OHSAS 18001, ISMS ISO/IEC 27001, SMS 28000, Social Responsibility - Accountability, and others;
• To encourage and pursue implementation, updating and improvements the protocol activities as signatory in alignment within the compromise to bear the Charter, this is for the protection of consumers and communities.