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ESHQ Document TFC-ESHQ-Q_C-C-03, REV B
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CONTROL, OF SUSPECT/ Effective Date December 31, 2003
COUNTERFEIT ITEMS
ATTACHMENT C - SUSPECT/COUNTERFEIT ITEMS INFORMATION SOURCE LIST
A wide variety of industry and Government sources publish information relative to suspect/counterfeit
products. The following sources provide information which is available on a continuing basis:
Industrial Fasteners Institute (IFI)
The following information is available feom IFH via subscription:
"Fastener Application Advisory" (Published Monthly)
"North American Manufacturers Identification Markings for Fasteners"
Fastener-related video cassettes.
The National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors (NBBI)
The NBBI publishes "National Board Bulletins" to alert manufacturers and users of
misrepresented products as they are discovered.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
The NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation issued a "Suspect Bolt List" in late 1990
identifying numerous fasteners, which they determined to be misrepresented.
Trade Journals and Magazines
There are numerous trade-oriented magazines which have carried articles identifying incidents of
failure of substandard parts in industry applications which have caused personal injury and death,
as well as serious property damage.
Newspaper and Television. Reports
Another good source of information are news reports, which provide current accounts of
probllems encountered as a result of misrepresented products.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
The NRC issues bulletins, notices, and regulatory guidance on a continuing basis to alert nuclear
power utilities of potential intrusion of misrepresented products into the operations environment
of operating nuclear power plants.
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and U.S. Department of Commerce publications are also
monitored by the DOE to assure that - the , deficiencies. identified do not contaminate DOE
facilities-
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