National Commission for Certifying

National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). Washington, DC at www.credentialingexcellence.org. 

Drug and alcohol counselor certified hy the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Certification Commission (NAADAC) or hy the International Certification Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (ICRC) or by the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. and Affiliates/Master Addictions Counselor (NBCC). 

Table 3 Representative certified reference materials for speciation analysis available from European Commission (BCR), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and National Research Council Canada (NRCC)...

This Section describes one of the first successful attempts, by a multi national project team funded by the European Commission s DC XII, to produce and certify a microbiological CRM that is both fit for purpose and meets the requirements of the ISO Guides. The first results are two bacterial strains, Enterococcus faecium (CRM 506) and Salmonella typhimurium (CRM 507) (fanning et al. 1995). Both are available as part of the EU BCR range of CRMs. 

Some reference material producers/suppliers use different names to describe their materials. For example, a Standard Reference Material (SRM) is a certified reference material issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), while European Reference Materials (ERMs) are CRMs produced under a joint collaboration between three European reference materials producers, i.e. BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany), IRMM (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Belgium) and LGC (UK). 

Education in engineering at the College for Technical Chemistry (HBLVA), Vienna sworn and court-certified expert for waste and for the production of paints and varnishes. After 15 years of industrial experience, he founded AFC Consult in Vienna in 1993 and acts as consultant for Austrian companies, national and international industrial associations, Austrian ministries, and for the European Commission. 

It was assumed that the production of most obvious CRMs (i.e. simple matrix CRMs for classical parameters that were already produced in the past) could be tackled by commercial companies. The role of the European Commission is felt to be necessary when the technological risks for CRM production are significant. The development of CRMs is not a normal market since it involves very specialised manufacturing procedures. No commercial company can afford to develop CRMs in support of many purposes. Quality is the key word commercial materials might not be of sufficient quality to respond to the demand. The EC should act where national initiatives cannot comply with the demand. Participants considered that reference materials should be certified at the EC level, not at the national level, and that commercial products should refer to primary (certified) materials. A scheme should be developed for the mutual acceptance of materials, e.g. establishing a kind of EC label of quality in this context, accreditation of RM producers should become mandatory. 

Reference materials for combustion calorimetry have been recommended by the lUPAC Commission Physicochemical Measurements and Standards [130-132] and by the ICTAC Thermochemistry Working Group [133]. They are classified as primary, secondary and tertiary reference materials and when their properties are certified by a national or international organization, agency or laboratory authorized they are called certified reference materials . For combustion calorimetry, the recommended reference materials must be selected according to the atoms in the molecule and its physical state [133] benzoic acid (C,H,0, cr, primary), succinic acid (C,H,0, cr, secondary), hippuric acid (C,H,0,N, cr, tertiary), acetanilide (C,H,0,N, cr, secondary), nicotinic acid (C,H,0,N, cr, tertiary), 1,2,4-triazole (C,H,0,N, cr, secondary)[134], urea (C,H,0,N, cr, tertiary), thiantrene (C,H,0,S, cr, secodary), 4-fluorobenzoic acid (C,H,0,F, cr, secondary), pentafluorobenzoic acid (C,H,0,F1, cr, tertiary), 4-chorobenzoic acid (C,H,0,C1, cr, secondary), 4-bromobenzoic acid (C,H,0,Br, cr, tertiary), 4-iodobenzoic acid (C,H,0,I, cr, tertiary), triphenylphosphine oxide... 

Participation is on a voluntary basis. In many aspects it resembles BS 7750 and other national standards on environmental management. In order to avoid an unnecessary burden on companies wanting to adhere to the scheme, those certified under standards such as BS 7750, ISO 9000, ISO 10011 and CEN/ISO role, recognised by the European Commission, are not required to duplicate their procedures in order to meet the corresponding EM requirements. In Figure 6.4 the required procedures for registration under the Scheme are displayed. 

This is the document requested by the War Department in February 1942. Without it, my commission, dated November 25, 1941, could have been revoked. Consulate of Japan, Los Angeles, Calif. In accordance with the National Citizenship Law, Section 20, Article 3, Paragraph 2, the [Japanese] citizenship of the persons named hereafter has been cancelled on the 12th day of the lOth month of 8th year of Showa Era (October 12,1933) and the notice thereof has been published in the official Bulletin 329 of the Department of Home Affairs Yamazaki Tamio (Peter), Yamazaki Michio (John), Yamazaki Nobuo (James). Translation, certified correct and made by R. J. Mittewer, Notary Public for the County of Los Angeles, February 6,1942, and recorded in the County Recorder s Office. ... 

The reliability of the final result at the end of the characterisation process cannot be evaluated in a simple way. The precision can be determined by internal control in the laboratory using certified standards. Consequently an intensive national and international collaboration for the exchange of information on waste samples and associated radio-analytical methods developed by different laboratories and institutions is needed. In France, some normalization working groups (M 60 commission) and laboratories collaborate with regard to effluent and waste characterization. The CETAMA network is a very active laboratory network conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission with the... 

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