About Us
Promoting Quality
The Controlled Environment Testing Association (CETA) is devoted to promoting and developing quality assurance within the controlled environment testing industry. Together, professionals from throughout the industry have created a higher standard and a growing non-profit organization headquartered in Raleigh, NC.
CETA membership benefits anyone who works with controlled environments. This included certifiers, safety professionals, industrial hygienists, facility engineers and control personnel.
In addition, industry professionals working with equipment such as cleanrooms, laminar flow devices, fume hoods, biological safety cabinets, isolation rooms and other controlled environments, find a reliable source of information and new perspectives from fellow CETA members.
One of the main vehicles for this information exchange is Performance Review, the quarterly peer-reviewed journal for CETA. Offering articles and papers on a wide variety of subjects—from technical innovations to suggestions for improving your business—Performance Review has become an essential tool in controlled environment industry.
Becoming a member of CETA not only offers scholarly publications, access to the annual meeting and a network of other professionals, it is an opportunity to be recognized as a leader in the controlled environment field.
Formation of CETA
After several planning and organizational meetings, the Controlled Environment Testing Association was established Fall 1992. It was developed to promote quality assurance in the industry through the exchange and dissemination of information on certification issues.
Controlled Environments include cleanrooms, laminar flow devices, sterile ovens, tunnels, dryers, biological safety cabinets, fume hoods, containment suites, and other similar environments that require precision testing and certification.
Goals & Objectives
CETA was founded on the principle of quality and that remains its hallmark for the future. In listing its goals and objectives, CETA strives to create a pledge among its members to help foster these goals within the industry.
- Promote quality assurance through the review of existing standards and the development of new methodologies
- Work with government and regulatory agencies on issues affecting the controlled environment and contamination control industries
- Foster the effective transfer of industry technology and information through an annual meeting and quarterly journal.
- Provide continuing education by publishing technical journals, papers, and other publications
- Develop professional relationships with allied associations
- Promote environmental safety and occupational health
