The new 2015 revision of ISO 9001, brought right up to date in response to vast changes in technology, business diversity and global commerce, promises to be the most effective user friendly and relevant quality management system yet.
Every feedback from viewers and users of the standard has been very positive. “It’s a game changer ” says Simon Feary, Chief Executive at the Chartered Quality Institute in the UK and Alan Daniels of the Boeing who represented the International Aeroscope quality group on the ISO 9001 revision subcommittee sees it as a real improvement that will lead to a more robust. This is a wonderful opportunity for organization to refocus that quality management system really works. This is an exciting event and important news for all. The latest 2015 revision gives the jewel of quality management keeping it relevant and bringing it right up to date with today’s connected world.
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Do you trust the food you eat?
The global food industry has never faced more challenges of substandard of food products and high profile cases crop up regularly to dent consumer confidence. So how trustworthy is your food?
Food safety is something we tend to granted.The content of the packets of food stuffs on display will match the information on the labels is also another question that we need to answer. In the early 1980s hundreds of people died from contaminated from cooking oil in Spain and more recently in China the industrial chemical melamine was found in powdered baby milk leading to fatalities and thousands of infants falling ill.
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ECAE has evaluated its first quarter performance.
On October 05/2012E.C ECAE together with its staff, reviewed first quarter of the 2012 fiscal year plan performance. During the evaluation, it is stated that the enterprise is playing its part in the economic development of the country; via strengthening its internal capacity from time to time to be a leading and preferred conformity assessment service provider in providing services in accordance with international practices. It is said that in the quarter it has been able to provide services toa total of 4,593 service requests in all three sectors.
ECAE’S 2011 BUDGET YEAR ACTIVITIES
Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise has been refining its practice from time to time to empower itself and to realize its economic and social role in a manner that is consistent with the national vision. To this end the enterprise’s plan implementation indicates; the journey it embarks on can be successful through resolving the noticed gaps & reinforcing positive experiences of preceding years.
Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise has received 24,170 different service requests in the 2011 fiscal year and has provided quality assurance services in three service sectors. This includes 15,541 laboratory testing services, 7,603 inspection services and 1,026 certification services. The performance of the fiscal year is 36% over the same period of 2010budget year. The service details are listed below;
In quality testing laboratory including Chemical 2‚326, Mechanical 8‚646, Microbiology 870, Electrical 1,278, Textile & Leather 605 and Radiation 1,816 totally 15,541 different types of product samples were testedwhether or not they met the required quality standards set out for them.
Read more ...ECAE begins to test the amount of fiber found in packed foods
The service enables to identify the quality of food.
Researches currently depict that fiber found in food products help to normalize weight and prevent colleen cancer. By scaling up its capacity in well trained human resource and laboratory equipment’s, Ethiopian conformity assessment enterprise, chemical laboratory, launches to test the amount of fiber especially found in packed powder foods products.
In related news the enterprise in collaboration with water technology institute give a one month theoretical and practical training for professional staffs on how to identify the quality of drinking water through laboratory testing and also build up their understanding of food safety management system (ISO 22000) and laboratory management system (ISO 17025) which helps to play a key role in ensuring safe water for the mass.
The Ethiopian conformity assessment which is federal owned public enterprise making its services modernize deliver laboratory testing, inspection and certification services for the mass and also able to replace the systems to a newly revised once ISO/IEC 17021:2015 and ISO 9001:2015.
USEFUL LINKS
NMIE - National Metrology Institute of Ethiopia
ESA - Ethiopian Standards Agency
ENAO - Ethiopian National Accreditation Office
IAF - International Accreditation Forum
ILAC - International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
QA - Quality Austria
SGS - SGS
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