Material Traceability - Mill certification not available

[DGARRISON]

IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO REESTABLISH POINT OF ORIGIN FOR RAW MATERIAL DISTRIBUTORS WHEN MILL CERTIFICATION IS UNOBTAINABLE? CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL TEST ARE PERFORMED BY AN ACCREDITED LAB (A2LA CERTIFIED).
WHERE DOES PRODUCT LIABILITY FALL? ARE YOU ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY?

 

[Jim Biz]

What you have described I would think is nothing more that verification of the materials on-hand.

Should have not much to do with "re-establishing an origion point"

The point of origion remains the same even if the certificatons are not available.

As far as "liability" I'm not a lawyer but I would think you have just as much liability either way --- if you have certs from a supplier or if you have independent test records you do have "Proof of material make-up".

Regards
Jim

[This message has been edited by Jim Biz (edited 13 April 2001).]