In a resolution, the Central Conference of American Rabbis promised to work cooperatively with the movement known as Hekhsher Tzedek, meaning "justice certification," to develop the new seal of approval, which would be applied only to food certified as kosher according to traditional Jewish dietary laws.
Four years ago, ASEBIR took part in an initiative by AENOR, the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification, to develop a national standard in this field (UNE 17900 2013 System of quality management for assisted reproduction laboratories), extending the former requirements, based on ISO 9001, to include performance indicators.
The Works Initiative will also provide opportunities to pursue certifications to develop career skills as well as paid internships with prominent companies and institutions in the city.
Starbucks collaborated with Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), a third-party evaluation and certification firm, to develop the guidelines for the program.
States whose officials have attended Pearson conferences and also have contracts with Pearson include: Florida, to administer state tests; Virginia, to provide online courses; California, Georgia and Michigan, for teacher certification programs; Iowa, to develop eTranscript and portal systems; and South Dakota, to create alternate assessment tests for the disabled.
The Open Identity Exchange, a group of companies including AT&T, Google, Paypal, Symantec and Verizon, is helping to develop certification standards for online identity authentication; it believes that industry can address privacy issues through self-regulation.
He suggests that perhaps a national committee could be appointed to develop certification standards for all service animals as well as a formal process for preventing and punishing service-animal fraud.
None of this guidance is standardized, validated, or accredited by outside professional groups, although efforts are underway to develop certification programs for robot-assisted surgery.
Flour Corporation's NuScale is waiting for design certification from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to develop small modular reactors - SMRs - supporters claim are so safe that emergency evacuation requirements should be all but eliminated.
The features list produced in this study could be used by policymakers and professional bodies to develop certification criteria or standards for prescribing software systems, and as guidance for software vendors.
"Everything in agriculture has been built around a simplified rotation of one or two crops," said Rich Welsh, an agriculture economist and rural sociologist at the Henry A. Wallace Institute in Beltsville, Md .To grow more crops in rotation -- a requirement for organic certification -- farmers would need to develop an array of new markets and systems for storing and distributing their products.
