If a certification body either:
Specific Case:
Awhile back, we requested a 9001 quality system certificate from one of our suppliers as part of our supplier evaluation/approval process.
They gave us one issued by "beijing zhonglian tianrun certification center (ZLTR)".
I could swear that, at the time, I checked into (insofar as possible) the legitimacy of the certificate and all checked out.
Now, however, I can no longer reach the certification body's website, and despite Google searches pointing to SCC accreditation pages citing ZLTR, the actual SCC accredited list doesn't list them (were they removed? If so, I presume the Google search is just showing cached results?).
In anycase, you can see from a Google search that there are a lot of companies that have certificates issued by ZLTR. If something has happened to ZLTR, what are the downstream effects? How is the industry supposed to respond? How do you monitor this type of thing? Is there anyway to know what happened to ZLTR?
- Loses accreditation, or
- Disappears / becomes unreachable
Specific Case:
Awhile back, we requested a 9001 quality system certificate from one of our suppliers as part of our supplier evaluation/approval process.
They gave us one issued by "beijing zhonglian tianrun certification center (ZLTR)".
I could swear that, at the time, I checked into (insofar as possible) the legitimacy of the certificate and all checked out.
Now, however, I can no longer reach the certification body's website, and despite Google searches pointing to SCC accreditation pages citing ZLTR, the actual SCC accredited list doesn't list them (were they removed? If so, I presume the Google search is just showing cached results?).
In anycase, you can see from a Google search that there are a lot of companies that have certificates issued by ZLTR. If something has happened to ZLTR, what are the downstream effects? How is the industry supposed to respond? How do you monitor this type of thing? Is there anyway to know what happened to ZLTR?