PAB News

  • DTI-PAB conducts Briefing Sessions in General Santos City

    DTI-PAB conducts Briefing Sessions in General Santos City

    Ms. Sheena C. Dela Torre, one of DTI-PAB Promotion and Documentation Officers, presented the overview of accreditation and DTI-PAB services during the seminar on Importance of Accreditation in the Delivery of Health and Social Care.  The DTI-Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB) in collaboration with DTI Region XII went on a roadshow…
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  • PAB Holds Conformity Assessment Bodies Forum

    PAB Holds Conformity Assessment Bodies Forum

    Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Assistant Secretary for Competitiveness and Innovation Group (CIG), Mary Jean T. Pacheco, joins the participants in a photo opportunity after she graced the event through her welcome remarks during the CABs forum conducted by the Philippine Accreditation Bureau’s (PAB) Laboratory Accreditation Division (LAD). The…
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  • DTI-PAB Conducts an Orientation on Accreditation of Certification for Persons

    DTI-PAB Conducts an Orientation on Accreditation of Certification for Persons

    Participants pose for a group photo during the Orientation on Accreditation of Certification Bodies for Persons Based on ISO/IEC 17024:2012 on June 27, 2019 held at Kalayaan Hall, Level III, St. Giles Hotel Makati, Makati Avenue, Corner Kalayaan Avenue, Makati City. The Philippine economy which posted a 6.1% growth in…
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  • PAB Orients Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Heads on Latest ISO/IEC 17025 Version

    PAB Orients Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Heads on Latest ISO/IEC 17025 Version

    Engr. Aldwin B. Tagapan discusses ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in the Philippines including the requirements and application process during the QMS Course #2: Laboratory Quality Management Systems (QMS) for Management held at Somerset Hotel, Alabang, Muntinlupa City on June 21, 2019.  Philippine Accreditation Bureau participated in a series of training courses on…
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  • Bureau of Plant Industry-National Seed Quality Control Services Gets Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005

    Bureau of Plant Industry-National Seed Quality Control Services Gets Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005

    NSQCS Quality Manager Ruel C. Gesmundo (middle) and BPI OIC Director George Y. Culaste (right) receive their certificate of accreditation from PAB Officer-in-Charge Ernani M. Dionisio (left) during the ceremonial awarding at the BPI-NSQCS Conference Room, Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City. The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) received its certificate…
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  • DTI-PAB Orients FDA South Cluster’s Field Inspector on ISO/IEC 17020

    DTI-PAB Orients FDA South Cluster’s Field Inspector on ISO/IEC 17020

    Resource persons Ms. Perla F. Baje, PAB-LAD Chief (right), and Ms. Japhet T. Celis, PAB-PDD Personnel (3rd from right) received the Certificate of Appreciation from Atty. Emilio L. Polig Jr. (center) Director II of FDA South Luzon Cluster The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) South Luzon cluster had an orientation…
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  • PAB Conducts Seminar on the Latest Version of ISO/IEC 17025

    PAB Conducts Seminar on the Latest Version of ISO/IEC 17025

    Resource person Engr. Aldwin B. Tagapan (center), PAB Dir. Ernani M. Dionisio (3rd from right), NML Chief Aurora V. Kimura (3rd from left) and ITDI personnel posing for a group photo to mark the culmination of the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 seminar.  The Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) led by National Metrology…
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  • PAB Conducts Seminar-Workshop for Halal Certification Bodies

    PAB Conducts Seminar-Workshop for Halal Certification Bodies

    In photo: Halal Certification Bodies poses for a photo op with PCCI-MEGMA Chairman, Mr. Roberto C. Amores (3rd from right, front) and PAB’s Management System Accreditation Division Head, Ms. Juanita P. Carpio (2nd from right, front) and Promotion and Documentation Head, Ms. Amor Lahoz (4th from right, front) The Philippine…
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  • DTI-PAB Retains Signatory Status to APAC MRA

    DTI-PAB Retains Signatory Status to APAC MRA

    Ms. Perla F. Baje, Chief of PAB-Laboratory Accreditation Division (6th from left) thanking the APAC peer evaluators (1st to 4th from left) during the closing meeting of the 5-day APAC peer evaluation. Others in photo are PAB-OIC Ernani M. Dionisio (center), Ms. Juanita P. Carpio –Chief of PAB- Management System…
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  • Overcoming the Challenges of Marketing Accreditation

    Overcoming the Challenges of Marketing Accreditation

    Marketing a unique type of commodity like accreditation poses challenge especially for economies with fragmented national quality infrastructure. For a government accreditation body like the Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), marketing accreditation becomes more difficult as it is not the usual public goods…
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