What differentiates GREENGUARD Certification from other product certification programs?
GREENGUARD Certification programs prescribe to the most comprehensive t indoor air quality standards available including defined chemical and particle criteria. Certification requires accurate emissions testing, review of data according to indoor air quality standards and risk evaluations recommended and provided by key public health agencies, and ongoing product performance verification. GREENGUARD Certified products are tested and reviewed for more than 10,000 individual volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and required to meet stringent health-based emission levels for over 350 of these individual VOCs. Many programs either let manufacturers select “representative” sample products for testing or use materials lists to choose representative samples, GREENGUARD Certification uses a unique process based on materials science, manufacturing audits, supply chain review, and actual materials emissions testing to group products into categories in order to select truly representative test sampl
