What is NSF?
NSF International is a not-for-profit, non-governmental public health and safety company. It’s a world leader in standards development and product certification for public health and safety. NSF Certification assures consumers safety by using outside expert contamination testing and confirming regulatory acceptance by verifying our manufacturing consistency and accuracy.
NSF (NSF International) is an independent, private, not-for-profit, 3rd party certification, testing, and standards writing organization. NSF is accredited by ANSI, (the American National Standards Institute), RvA, (the Dutch Raad voor Accreditatie), and SCC, (the Standards Council of Canada) for its testing, standards writing, and certification programs. NSF writes consensus standards for product, material, and system assessment. NSF provides an array of testing services to many different industries. NSF provides the plumbing industry services for items such as pipes, fittings, valves, pumps, water heaters, sinks, showers, toilets, faucets, controllers, filters, materials, and ingredients. NSF does conduct testing, listing, certifying, and enforcement of its standards.
