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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. ...