what is NSF International and what does it do?
Bob Tanner explains It all started in 1944 at the University of Michigan when a group of people began to develop “public health standards” for commercial food equipment to try to standardise requirements. Today, those early pioneers would be shocked to find that millions of products around the world carry the NSF mark, verifying compliance with NSF standards. Not only food equipment, but swimming pool components, plumbing products, drinking water system components, bottled water, wastewater systems and even biohazard cabinetry. The organisation started life as the National Sanitation Foundation, an independent, not for profit, third-party foundation. Now renamed NSF-International, it is still a not-for-profit company and still third-party, working with equal commitment to manufacturers, users and consumers. Its involvement in food equipment standards has resulted in a very close working relationship with US registered sanitarians. The NSF mark is effectively a mandatory requirement on
