The company I work for routinely requests that I get certifications through
the following safety agencies:
UL, VDE, SEMKO, DEMKO, NEMKO, FIMKO, EZU, QAS, GOST and
ad nausium.
My question is this; Are all these agencies necessary? If you get a base
safety certification from say, UL, coupled with a CB Report/Cert and a
third party EMC/EMI report to FCC ClassB, and EN50022, why is it necessary
to get the safety agency for every country you want to sell in?
Why can't this industry come up with an all encompassing mark, lets call it
the OM (for Overall Mark) that is granted to your product after you get the
following:
1. Base safety cert (from your agency of choice)
2. CB Report/Cert
3. FCC/Cispr22 cert
THe mark would allow you to sell your product in any country in the world.
It makes alot more sense than the way it is done now. I can spend up to 3
months waiting for a certification to come back from China.
The cost is outragous also. If we spend $30,000 on the certification
process, we count ourself lucky. I believe that alot of these new agencies
that have been appearing on the scene over the last couple of years are in
it strictly to make a buck. All they have to do is block your product from
their market unless you pay their extortion money.
I know that this is opening up a can of worms, but I would like to know if
there are other disgruntled safety persons out there that feel the same
way.
This view is strictly my own.
Daniel W. Mitchell
Product Safety
EOS Corp.
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