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CONTENTS
Page 2 – Editor's Note
Page 3 – Meet our Newsletter Contributors
Page 4 – News
Page 9 – World Accreditation Day
By Paul Greenwood – UKAS Operations Director
Page 10 – BSI and PPE in the Fight Against COVID-19
by Nathan Shipley PPE Group Certification Manager, BSI
Page 12 – Protecting the Food Chain During a
Global Pandemic
by Jim Moseley – CEO Red Tractor
Page 14 – The Future of Assessment
by Jeff Ruddle, Strategic Development Director, UKAS
Page 16 – Identifying Microplastic and Nanoplastic
Pollutants in the Environment
by Elinor Hughes, technical copywriter at Markes
International, Gwaun Elai Medi-Science Campus,
Llantrisant, UK.
Page 20 – CE Certification Checklist
Page 23 – Member Notices
EDITOR'S NOTE
Welcome readers to the Summer issue of the BMTA
Newsletter
Once again contributions to the newsletter have been
influenced by Covid-19, and we have articles in this issue
that focus on the future of remote assessment, PPE and
forged or fake certifications.
We also take a look at World Accreditation Day - food safety,
which promotes the value of accreditation, accredited
conformity assessment and standards.
In addition, we investigate how to identify microplastic and
nanoplastic pollutants in our environment. Both accumulate
and persist in the environment. Scientists have found them in
soil, water and the air, and studies show they have been
found in food. As a result, concern over their effect on human
health is growing.
The theme of our Autumn 2020 issue is:
BMTA - the Voice of Measurement
and Testing
BMTA was created in 1990 in response to the need for
an independent ‘lobby’ for the private sector to speak
with one voice to Government, UKAS, BSI and other
official bodies on issues affecting the whole
measurement, testing and calibration community.
We encourage you to make your views known in the
standards making process,
though your contribution to newsletters, participation in
Association activities and membership of relevant
BMTA and Standards Making committees.
Industry 4.0 and its impact on the
Measurement, Testing and Calibration
process - (AR, AI, VR etc)
To help us provide our BMTA members with useful
information we would like your help to:
identify and share relevant topics;
provide research on new technologies or techniques;
let us know industry news;
promote events and training sessions;
inform us of publications you think may be of interest to
your fellow BMTA members.
If you would like to contribute to the next issue of the BMTA
Newsletter please contact [email protected]
with a brief synopsis.
Equally, should your business produce any information, white
papers or interviews that you would like to share, please
submit this to [email protected].
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