Dan, You are absolutely correct in questioning the need to get certifications from all those agencies. All of the product safety reports that I have for our products are basically the same report. All are based on IEC950. And each one costs at least $2,000 US. Not only that, they keep changing, so we have to update the report on occasion - another expense. Big companies can afford this, but it is difficult for small ones with just a few employees. I too wish we could come up with a universal EMC/product safety certification.
Darrell ---------- From: [email protected] To: 'emc-pstc' Cc: Dan Mitchell Subject: Are all these agencies really necessary? List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 5:26PM 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. --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
