FACTS & FIGURES ACCREDITATION

Most accreditation bodies derive their revenues from third-party service providers (namely registrar and special services) applications and continuing fees for-profit, yet with the illusion of not-for-profit. Other accreditation bodies derive their resources as a public trust strictly not-for-profit exercising due-care.
Main accreditation groups charge fee as low as $70,000.00+ USD by small registrars to more than $1,000,000.00+ USD annually for large registrars issuing thousands of certificates. This is for the licensing use of their accreditation mark. Needless to say, its aims are for-profit lucrative business that is necessary for lobbying, while providing an illusion of not-for-profit.
Further, some accreditation bodies require that accredited registrars pay a percentage of the total revenues from issued certificates, in the 10-20% for the licensing of their respective accreditation marks to registrars; et al leasing arrangements. This is to lease the use of a mark on the certificates that registrar’s issue in providing a sense of “authenticity”, under a sort of mutual recognition.
The fees that accreditation bodies collect from the registrars are at a minimum in the tenth of millions of USD$ annually (going onto a USD$ billion). Needless to say, that many third-party certifications are unwilling to pay-for-play.
One of the better known hierarchical organization is IAF, Inc. a business registered in Delaware, an SRO (self-regulated organization) | NGO (non-governmental organizations), for third-party business accreditations. This business comprises of five (5) groups, namely world regions from: Africa, Europe, America, Middle East, Asia Pacific. These charge fees per each set of European Industry Codes, namely “Nomenclature des Activités Économiques dans la Communauté Européenne” (NACE) from Belgium and Strasbourg France controlled.
Similarly, with grasp of the food sector, Belgium’s GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiatives) is a private business providing services of recognition – certification specific to food sectors. And payment of continuing fees for the control of exclusiveness of brand-programs such as BRC, Global Aquaculture, FSA, SQF, Primus GFS, IFS. These fees are necessary for lobbying.
Among other accreditation – recognition services provider there is IQNET from Switzerland and in smaller scale is: the GOB (GlobalNet Oversight Board) an NGO (non-governmental organization) in USA; AIAO-BAR in USA; and IAB in UK. Equally, these provide accreditation services utilizing international recognized and generally accepted (IRGA) benchmarks such as the International Organization for Standardization (namely ISO) among others. These account for approximately 30% of third-party services in the world markets providing independent – impartial third-party accreditation – recognition services. These do not participate in the MLA special-interest peer-review based-groups.
Founded in 2003, BRS has chosen, since 2010 (leaving Delaware’s IAF, Inc. groups) for an  independent accreditation in providing free-market third-party services (validation, inspection and certification). BRS mission, values and vision to a noble and honorable purpose provides consumer-centric the principles and fundamentals through governmental tripartite authoritatively accreditation while applying international convention. BRS accomplishments includes consumer-centric activities such as working with UNIDO to grant and issue the first FSMS ISO 22000 accredited certification in Iraq 2010. BRS, in protection of client-organizations and consumers, we abide to confidentiality, privacy, antifraud, anticorruption and antitrust USA based laws and equivalent local laws. Based public trust accreditation, it would be illegal to share information that jeopardizes client-organizations and consumers security and safety in an era of phishing, ransomware and paths onto malware. We believe that the better protection of community and consumers within the free-market is brand, and consumers having choice. The choice is up to businesses | brands.
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