UL Signs Exclusive Memorandum of Understanding with the China Food and Drug Administration's Institute of Executive Development

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Aug. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The China Food and Drug Administration's Institute of Executive Development (CFDAIED) has signed an exclusive memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UL to develop and deploy UL's PURE® Learning's regulatory content and training solutions. Following work to support the CFDAIED inspector training program, UL and CFDAIED will jointly create and brand China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) regulatory courses for use by Life Science companies in China as well as those global Life Science companies looking to meet regulatory requirements for products imported into China.

"We are honored and excited to partner with the CFDAIED," said Scott Barnard, managing director for PURE Learning, part of UL's PURE platform. "CFDAIED and UL share a common goal and mission of promoting and ensuring food and drug safety. This partnership will help accelerate the development of a specialized and highly-effective investigator force and continue to support efforts to evolve the CFDA both now and in the future."

This agreement will ensure long-term exclusive cooperation for at least the next five years. The cooperation with CFDAIED will help promote UL's brand awareness in China, raise UL's profile among manufacturers in the Life Science industry, and help Chinese authorities improve and scale their inspector training programs.

For more information about UL's PURE Learning, call +1-609-627-5364 or visit ulpurelearning.com.

About UL
UL fosters safe living and working conditions for people everywhere through the application of science to solve safety, security and sustainability challenges. The UL Mark engenders trust enabling the safe adoption of innovative new products and technologies. Everyone at UL shares a passion to make the world a safer place. We test, inspect, audit, certify, validate, verify, advise and train and we support these efforts with software solutions for safety and sustainability. To learn more about us, visit UL.com.

About UL EHS Sustainability
UL EHS Sustainability empowers organizations to protect the well-being of workers, reduce risk, improve productivity, enhance compliance, and drive measurable business improvement through its EHS, occupational health, environmental, supply chain, sustainability, corporate social responsibility and learning platforms. Its new PUREtm Platform is a full suite of environment, health, safety, sustainability, learning and supply chain software solutions designed for users who want total connectivity and visibility into the overall health, safety, quality and sustainability of their organization. More than 2,000 organizations in over 20 major industries including life sciences, manufacturing, healthcare, and construction & energy, trust UL's tools to meet their expanding needs. To learn more, visit www.ULEHSSustainability.com or call 888.202.3016.

About CFDA-IED
CFDAIED is an institute directly affiliated with the former CFDA and the only national professional education and training institution responsible for professional training or training guidance to more than 400,000 inspectors of food, drug cosmetics, dietary supplement and medical device on a national scale through the Online Academy of China Food and Drug Regulation. CFDAIED also establishes training to the large number of food and drug inspectors.

CFDAIED is responsible for providing professional and technical training services to the community and industry, promoting technological progress and improving the level of food and drug safety through an online training platform for industry professionals, in-person lecturing and correspondence courses.

Michelle Press
[email protected]
847-664-1966

Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/129100/ul_enterprise_logo.jpg