(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI, a notified body providing regulatory and quality management reviews for medical devices, kicks off its “Passport to Europe” program.

(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Increasing numbers of customer complaints is typically an indicator of unresolved internal quality failures.

(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Madison, WI) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently unveiled an enhanced and easy-to-navigate version of its interactive UV-Visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometer web tool.

(FDA: Washington) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a contract to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. to develop a pilot of the FDA’s Sentinel System, which will use automated health care data to evaluate medical product safety.

(IQS: North Olmsted, OH) -- IQS announces the availability of IQS Problem Solver module that enables organizations to standardize problem solving processes with easy-to-use questioned-based reasoning software.

(TÜV SÜD Canada: Toronto, Canada) -- TÜV SÜD Canada, part of the global TÜV SÜD testing and certification organization, announces the acquisition of a product safety business in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(CRC Press: New York) -- In Quality Management: Theory and Application (CRC Press, 2009), author Peter D. Mauch, Ph. D., demonstrates the necessity of quality as a sustained management activity.

(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, the leading provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, recently announced that Shearer’s Foods, the home of Shearer’s award-winning snacks, has implemented ProFicient 4 to monitor and control manufacturing pro

(Intertek: Houston) -- You’re shopping for a holiday gift, and you check the packaging to see if it’s eco friendly. How can you tell if the product really is green when it’s labeled “100% recycled,” “biodegradable,” or “environmentally friendly”?

(Cybermetrics: Phoenix) -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines validation as “establishing documented evidence which provides a high degree of assurance that a specific process will consistently produce a product meeting its predetermined specification and quality attributes.”