National Laboratory (LANL) is working to achieve Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) certification to enable them to transport …. Since the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has achieved WIPP certification, INEEL personnel … the particular software quality assurance requirements required for WIPP certification. …

Certification Programs,' estimates the consumer welfare benefits from the increase in scope of USDA beef quality certification … has been offered as a reason for the decline. Certification programs provide producers a new way to differentiate and … consumer welfare by approximately 2% of beef expenditure. The second essay, 'Grading and Quality Certification in Beef …

Secondary markets have adopted a number of quality signaling mechanismssuch as certification to reduce information … examine the impact oftheir information-acquisition on the choice of certification, as well asthe price paid. We compare the … findings highlight that product-related informationsubstitutes, and price-related information complements, certification …

Professional standards are a significant issue for professions such as IT and Project Management, where certification …

involvement in value-based certification schemes (Ethical Trading Initiative, Fairtrade, Organic and Rainforest Alliance) on … certified producers in Tanzania. Each of these certification schemes makes claims on specific values that it is instilling in a … that despite claims about the ability to change trading relationships through the certification systems, most of the old …

certification costs, certification that fully reveals information makes high quality producers better off, but make the entire … industry worse off. In this case, the benefit from the revelation of the quality does not outweigh certification costs and the … rather than full revelation for some values of the certification costs. …

Food safety problems such as the BSE and dioxin crises focused attention on traceability systems and the certification … of such systems. This study analyzes the status and perspectives of traceability systems and certification schemes, and … reviews their potential costs and benefits. Results indicate that traceability and certification in meat supply chains …