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1. What is accreditation?

Accreditation is third-party attestation related to a conformity assessment body conveying formal demonstration of its compentence to caary out specific conformity assessment tasks (5.6 of ISO/IEC 17000:2004).

2. What is an Accreditation Body ?

Authority body that performs accerditation (5.5 of ISO/IEC 17011).

3. What is a Certification ?

Third party attestation related to products, processes, systems or persons ( 5.6 of IS?IEC 17000:2004).

4. Why do you need for Accreditation ?

To ensure the confidence of inspection, test/calibration, certification and conformity assessment activities.
To supportfor intergrate process (assist to reduce technical Barriers to Trade - TBT) to pass recognition.

5. What is the benefit of Accreditation?

For state management:

To carry out for state management.
To ensure the confidence of the results of conformity assessment.
To reduce the cost for society.
To facilitate the intergration.

For Accredited bodies:

Comply with law regulations
Enhance the compentence
Ensure the confidence for authorities, customers and the leader of organization
Accepted by international.

For Society:

User believe in more services of conformity assessment which they used.
Accreditation is a basic for selection of used products and services.
Ensure the confidence in society for the results provided by the conformity assessment bodies.

6. What is the APLAC MRA ?

The APLAC multilateral MRA was established for testing and calibration in 1997 with seven inaugural signatiories. It replaced a network of bilateral MRAs. The scope of the MRA was extended in 200 to include inspection and, in 2006, is being extended to include reference material producers.

Under the MRA each signatory acknowledges the equivalence of accreditations of all other signatories:

Signatories demonstrate, through a peer review process, compliance with ISO/IEC 17011.
Accredited facilities demontrate through a peer assessment process compliance with:

ISO/IEC 17025-testing and calibration laboratories
ISO 15189-medical (clinical) laboratories
ISO/IEC 17020- inspecion bodies
ISO/IEC Guide 34 and ISO/IEC 17025- reference material producers

A facility accredited by one MRA signatory for specified tests, calibrations, inspections or reference material production has equivalent competence to a facility accredited by other MRA signatories.

The APLAC MRA enhances acceptance of test and calibration data, inspection reports and reference material certificates among signatory economies, thus eliminating the need for retesting , re-inspection or re-certification, and facilitating trade. In the regulated sector, laboratories and inspection bodies can be accredited for compliance with domestic and foreign regulators.

7.What calibration body is accepted by BoA ?

Viet nam metrology Institute-VMI
Authorised measurement organizations.
Calibration laboratories accredited by Boa
Foreign calibration laboratories accredited by APLAC MRA Signatory.

8.The suitability of calibration frequency ?

The frequency of calibration decided by laboratory itself.
The frequency of calibration in calibration cerificate is recommendation.

9.What is uncertainty of measurement?

Uncertainty of measurement is defined as a "parameter, associated with the result of a measurement, that characterizes the dispersion of the values that could reasonably be attributed to the measurand" (the measurand is th particular quantity subject to measurement)

10.The Boa's regulation concerning proficiency testing -PT ?

Applicant laboratories, before the first accreditation assessment the laboratory shall participate a PT program concerning with application field.
For accredited laboratories, the laboratories participate at least one PT program concerning with accredited field for 4 years.
BOA encurages accredited laboratories to participate PT conducted by international and national organization.

11.How long does applicant to gain the certificate of accreditation ?

To achive the certificate of accreditation depends on many factors as follow:

The level of applicant's conformity on the requirements of accreditation criteria
The complexcity of the field for application.
The number of test for application.
The number of NCs occurred from assessment and period of corrective action taken.
Normally, accreditation take from 3 to 5 months.

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