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“In my many, many years, almost a decade of doing this, I have never had a company be certified the first time without a nonconformance,” Batie said.

Fernandez said the nonconformance reports showed that the authority’s quality control program was working, though he acknowledged, “We don’t like where we are right now.”

“All of the statements coming from the countries taking action against Qatar now cite that nonconformance.”