The Bangladesh Accreditation Board is an autonomous government agency responsible for providing accreditations to Bangladeshi laboratories, testing centres, and certification bodies. It is located in

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Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

History

The Bangladesh Accreditation Board was established on 6 September 2006 by the government of Bangladesh through an act of parliament. The

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hired a

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consultant, Ned Gravel, to improve the practices in the board and this was done under a project funded by the

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. In 2015 the board signed an agreement with the Thai Industrial Standard Institute to improve trade ties between Bangladesh and

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. The chairman of Western Marine alleged that the accreditation issued by the board is sometimes not accepted in other countries.

References

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