News

July 2008 newsletter

• Council sets strategic direction
• Twelve month blitz
• We made the news in Taiwan
• OECD GLP appointment
• APLAC growing
• Registrations up in 2008
• Endorsement statements now electronic
• Civil Engineering Testing Conference
• New accreditations
• Articles of interest
• Training courses of interest

April 2008 newsletter

• The Shifting Landscape of Accreditation
• Accreditation - Delivering Trust in the Global Economy
• New Emphasis for Council
• Counterfeit Test Reports Surfacing
• Importance of Conformity Assessment
• China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to Benefit IANZ Accredited Organisations
• Proficiency Testing – An Important Part of Accreditation
• Changes to Advisory Committees
• New Accreditations
• That's iso, NOT I-S-O
• Publications Update
• Staff Changes at IANZ
• Training Courses of Interest

February 2008

• IANZ Advertising Campaign: February 2008 - August 2008

October 2007 newsletter

• First accredited Building Consent Authority
• Highlights from the Annual Report
• Council's Act amended
• IANZ accreditation explained
• Meeting client expectations
• Technical advice provided to trade negotiations
• New Accreditations
• ILAC celebrates 30 years
• NATA celebrates 60 years
• New NATA Chief Executive
• People at IANZ
• IANZ Publications
• Articles of interest
• Training courses remaining in 2007

July 2007

• Palmerston North first council accredited as a building consent authority
• LCT awarded world-first IANZ accreditation for xenotransplantation laboratory

May 2007 newsletter

• The changing role of IANZ
• NZS ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation now due
• ISO 15189:2007 published
• New appointments to Council
• Council Profiles
• Resignation
• Evaluation of IANZ by APLAC
• Necessary but satisfactory - Survey on IANZ
• Patience and understanding needed
• International recognition expands
• People
• IANZ Publications
• Extracts from publications
• Training courses coming up
• New accreditations

April 2007

• New Council Appointments - Apr 07

December 2006 newsletter

• Highlights of the 2006 Annual Report
• Passing of Dr Geoff Page
• Council's functions amended
• European Recognition of IANZ's inspection body accreditation programme
• New regional accreditation co-operation recognised
• Global inspection body arrangement
• International criteria for radiology practices promoted
• Pilot assessments of Building Consent Authorities
• Advancing Inspection Body accreditation in Asia
• New council members sought
• Articles of interest
• IANZ publications updated
• Extracts from publications
• Training calendar for 2007 released
• New Staff

August 2006 newsletter

• A tribute to Jack Garside - Director of Telarc 1979 to 1996
• Our own bit of theatre
• Standards and conformance under scrutiny
• Building controls sector being strengthened
• How accreditation is valued
• Formal approval needed for ILAC-MRA mark
• Reminder to laboratories on new standard
• Publications update
• New Staff

December 2005 newsletter

• Laboratory accreditation standard 17025:2005 now published
• Major international meeting hosted by IANZ
• Breast / Cervical Screening Auditing
• Changes to Council membership
• International activities
• Ensuring consistency
• Publications update
• New Staff

• New logo for Australian endorsement - May 05
  
  The combined IANZ and NATA accreditation logos for endorsing testing and inspection reports and certificates sent to Australia has been changed to include the new NATA emblem (shown at left). Accredited laboratories and inspection bodies wishing to include this endorsement should contact IANZ to obtain an electronic copy of the new mark.
  
  
• Worldwide Accreditation Mark - Feb 05