Indoor Air Comfort® USA – Product Certification

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Indoor Air Comfort^® USA

Eurofins’ Indoor Air Comfort^® USA certification scheme ensures that products meet the strictest requirements regarding volatile organic substances (VOC) emissions from construction products. This assures manufacturers, retailers and end-users that the product is low emission.

Eurofin's Indoor Air Comfort USA certification is accredited according to ISO 17065, which means that DANAK, as an independent body, now controls the quality of our certification processes and audits us annually.

The main benefits of the Indoor Air Comfort^® USA certification are:

Ensures that low product emission requirements are fulfilled.
Indicates a focus on quality and a healthy indoor environment.
Shows compliance with LEED v4 and LEED v4.1.
Permits the use of a low emission label for marketing purposes.
Boosts public trust by proving low limit values and high control intensity
(external surveillance and regular re-testing).
Ensures brand protection by establishing a management tool for monitoring and, if relevant, reducing VOC emissions from certified products by external surveillance in combination with factory production control.

Process of obtaining Indoor Air Comfort^® certification:

First, the product range and factories that produce these products need to be defined. This is done by giving one of our knowledgeable certification specialists detailed information about the raw materials and different components of the products that you aim as having part of the scope of certified products.
Our certification specialists will then arrange the products into different groups and then decide on which product(s) are the most worst-case for initial testing.
If the initial tests prove to be successful, the next step is to sign a contract.
Once this is done, the certification cycle can begin.
An initial audit is performed.
An inspection report is then produced which also mentions any potential non-conformities and how these should be rectified and by when.
After that, the certificate(s) is/are issued. For the years that follow, the samples for testing are sampled by the auditor upon inspection.