The BDA does not accredit a toothpaste for a whitening claim alone but accreditation can be given to toothpastes that demonstrate effective cleaning alongside dental health benefits.
"I don't understand why they don't accredit Hinduja, " said Soumya Swaminathan, director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, part of the government's network of biomedical research institutions.
After the completion of both programmes, students are required to take a final exam in order to accredit their learning through the System of Evaluation and Certification of Studies.
Working with the registries that control and distribute domain names, the APWG is crafting a system that would accredit security organizations to act as the Web's watchdogs, identifying phishing sites.