QAI becomes the 1st Indian Accreditation Body recognised by the American regulator USEPA as EPA TSCA Title VI Laboratory Accreditation Body
QAI becomes the 1st Indian Accreditation Body and one of the 15 such ABs globally to be recognised by the American Regulator, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as EPA Toxic Substances Control Act Title VI Laboratory Accreditation
QAI becomes the 1st Indian Accreditation Body and one of the 15 such ABs globally to be recognised by the American Regulator, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as EPA Toxic Substances Control Act Title VI Laboratory Accreditation Body (EPA TSCA Title VI Laboratory AB) under EPA TSCA Title VI Third-Party Certification Program. This recognition makes QAI to provide services under the Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products Rule.
Quality and Accreditation Institute Private Limited (QAI) enters into Recognition Agreement with the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The purpose of this Recognition Agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) and Quality and Accreditation Institute Private Limited is to recognize QAI as an EPA Toxic Substances Control Act Title VI Laboratory Accreditation Body (EPA TSCA Title VI Laboratory AB) working in cooperation with the EPA under the TSCA Title VI Third-Party Certification Program. The primary function of an EPA TSCA Title VI Laboratory AB is to provide an impartial verification of the competency of a laboratory or contract laboratory used by an EPA TSCA Title VI Third-Party Certifier (EPA TSCA Title VI TPC), also called a TPC laboratory.
EPA TSCA Title VI Laboratory AB means an AB that has a recognition agreement with EPA under the EPA TSCA Title VI Third-Party Certification Program, accredits a TPC’s testing laboratory or contract testing laboratory to ISO/ IEC 17025:2005(E) with a scope of accreditation to include 40 CFR part 770 and the formaldehyde test methods used to comply with 40 CFR part 770, and assesses the testing laboratory’s conformance to ISO/IEC 17020:2012(E) in order to perform laboratory testing services. The TSCA Title VI Third-Party Certification Program is managed as a part of the EPA OPPT National Program Chemicals Division (NPCD) Formaldehyde Program.
This Recognition Agreement shall be valid for three years and is subject to the renewal provisions stated therein.
