Certification

Certification is when a certification body gives written assurance that a product, service, process, personnel, organization or management system conforms to specific requirements.
The most well-known examples are the certification of quality management systems and environmental management systems as conforming, respectively, to the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards. More than a million business and public sector organizations worldwide have had their management systems certified to one or both of these standards. Newer management standards that also allow for certification address food safety (ISO 22000), energy management (ISO 50001) and information security (ISO/IEC 27001).

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