CMA, the name is "China Metrology Accreditation", the abbreviation of "China Metrology Accreditation" in English. According to the provisions of Article 22 of the Metrology Law of the People’s Republic of China: “The product quality inspection agency that provides notarized data to the society must be evaluated by the metrological administrative department of the people’s government at or above the provincial level for the capability and reliability of metrological verification and testing. Qualified." Therefore, all product quality supervision and inspection agencies and other laboratories that provide fair data to the society must obtain Chinese measurement certification, that is, CMA certification. So, what are the steps for third-party testing organizations to apply for CMA qualification?

Method/Step

first step

Registered companies, different regions also have requirements for registered capital, at least more than 500,000 registered capital;

Second step

After the industrial and commercial registration is completed, you need to purchase instruments and equipment and recruit chemical analysis engineers. The instrument must be a national standard chemical analysis instrument and a CMC certified instrument. The basic equipment is: gas chromatograph, spectrophotometer, soap film flow meter, analytical balance, atmospheric sampler, radon meter, drying oven, etc.;

third step

Staff need at least one senior chemical analysis engineer, several chemical analysis engineer titles;

the fourth step

After at least three months of trial operation and after establishing a complete laboratory management system, apply for measurement certification to the provincial quality supervision bureau;

the fifth step

The Certification Office of the Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau will inform you when to come to the on-site assessment;

The sixth step

On-site review (this is the most critical), if there are few applications for certification, there are generally two people, a team leader is responsible for the quality system inspection, and an expert is responsible for the technical inspection.

Step 7

On-site review will generally open some unqualified items, as long as there are not too many, generally no problem. First, there must be some problems, and the second is to reflect the level of experts. So there will definitely be some unqualified items;

Eighth step

Rectification of unqualified items will take at least one month. The rectification was completed one month later, and the relevant written certificates were submitted to the team leader. Step 9

Waiting for the issuance of CMA measurement certificate!