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An accredited registrar, also called an Accredited Certification Body (CB), are qualified organizations certified by a national body to perform audits to an standard (e.g. ISO 9001) and to register the audited facility as meeting these requirements for a given standard. ISO 9000 specifies requirements for a Quality Management System overseeing the production of a product or service. ...
Examples of national bodies that could certify an accredited registrar are the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board in the U. S. or the Deutscher-Akkreditierungsrat -DAR in Germany. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ...
Institutional accreditation normally applies to an entire institution, indicating that each of an institution's parts is contributing to the achievement of the institution's objectives, although not necessarily all at the same level of quality.
The accredited unit may be as large as a college or school within a university or as small as a curriculum within a discipline.
For example, the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA), which was established in 1974 and existed until December 1993, served as a nongovernmental organization whose purpose was to foster and facilitate the role of accrediting agencies in promoting and ensuring the quality and diversity of American postsecondary education.
Individual certificationbodies have their own service marks, which can act as branding to consumers—a certifier may promote the high consumer recognition value of its logo as a marketing advantage to producers, although they are certifying to the identical organic standards as their competitors.
Certification is handled by state, non-profit and private agencies that have been approved by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Formal certification is viewed by its critics as a barrier to entry for these original producers, by burdening them with increased costs, paperwork, and bureaucracy.
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