Title: certification
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - certification
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.08063
Status: current

Definition
Third-party attestation related to products, processes, systems, or persons.

Notes
1) Certification of a management system is sometimes also termed registration.
2) Certification is applicable to all objects of conformity assessment except for conformity assessment bodies themselves, to which accreditation is applicable.

Related Term
- conformity assessment: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08067

Source
- PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1022 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0819)

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- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08063/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08063/xml

Citation: Citation: 'certification' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08063
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