PAB News
The Department of Trade and Industry - Philippine Accreditation Bureau (DTI-PAB), and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) sealed their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 28 October 2022. The two agencies will cooperate in the field of accreditation of Verification Bodies (VBs) and verification activities
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The Department of Trade and Industry - Philippine Accreditation Bureau (DTI-PAB) conducted a week-long celebration of its 9th anniversary, emphasizing the importance of letting the general public know the importance of accreditation, accreditation standards, and accredited conformity assessment services. Its 9th year celebration was capped off by recognizing and honoring
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Manila – 14 October 2022, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), together with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, represented by the Embassy of Switzerland in the Philippines, launched the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP) in the Philippines: Standards
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The Laboratory Accreditation Division (LAD) and Promotion and Documentation Division (PDD) held this year’s CABs Forum and Capability Building Program to help PAB’s Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) competently perform their conformity assessment functions. The online activities were held to help CABs improve their knowledge and skills, as well as to
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The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through the Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB), held an awareness webinar last July 22, 2022, to discuss the recently issued ISO/IEC 17060:2022 – Code of good practice, and International Accreditation Forum Mandatory Document on Criteria for Evaluation of Conformity Assessment Schemes (IAF MD 25).
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In support to the advocacy of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology (PAM) to make Philippine Microbiologists globally competitive, DTI-PAB provided updates on Accreditation to the Philippine National Standard on Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for Bodies Operating Certification of Persons (PNS ISO/IEC 17024:2014) during its 31st Annual Meeting on 19
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In line with the effective implementation of the amended Organic Agriculture Law and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), the Department of Trade and Industry – Philippine Accreditation Bureau (DTI-PAB) and the Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards (DA-BAFS) signed the updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
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The Department of Trade and Industry through the Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB) affirmed its support to the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute’s (DOST-PTRI) Medical Textile Testing Center Project. On 24 June 2022, during the inauguration of the PTRI’s Medical Textile Testing Center (PMTTC) and its Microbiological Testing
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Photo captured during WAD Forum on 09 June 2022 World Accreditation Day (WAD) World Accreditation Day is annually celebrated every 9th of June. It is a global initiative established by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) to promote the value of accreditation. Over the
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PAB ensures that its assessments are calibrated by providing regular policy and standard updates to its assessors and experts through its yearly forum. This year’s Assessors and Experts’ Forum of the Laboratory Accreditation Division (LAD) was held uniquely as LAD collaborated with the Promotion and Documentation Division (PDD) to incorporate
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