What is the difference between primary testing, secondary testing, and the quality control testing conducted by a manufacturer?
Manufacturers of composite wood products are required to conduct small scale quality control testing of their products at the manufacturing plant to ensure that their panels do not exceed the applicable emission standards. Appendix 2 of the ATCM states that manufacturers have three options for conducting quality control testing: a desiccator (ASTM D 5582-00), a small chamber (D 6007-02), or an alternative small scale test that can be shown to correlate to the primary or secondary test methods. The primary and secondary test methods are used by third party certifiers to verify compliance of manufacturers with the applicable emission standards. Certifiers work with manufacturers to establish correlations between the manufacturer’s small scale quality control tests and the primary or secondary methods. Certifiers have the option of using either the primary or the secondary method. The primary method is defined as the large chamber test method (ASTM E-1333-96(2002)). The secondary method c
Manufacturers of composite wood products are required to conduct small scale quality control testing of their products at the manufacturing plant to ensure that their panels do not exceed the applicable emission standards. Appendix 2 of the ATCM states that manufacturers have three options for conducting quality control testing: a desiccator (ASTM D 5582-00), a small chamber (D 6007-02), or an alternative small scale test that can be shown to correlate to the primary or secondary test methods. The primary and secondary test methods are used by third party certifiers to verify compliance of manufacturers with the applicable emission standards. Certifiers work with manufacturers to establish correlations between the manufacturer’s small scale quality control tests and the primary or secondary methods. Certifiers have the option of using either the primary or the secondary method. The primary method is defined as the large chamber test method (ASTM E-1333-96(2002)). The secondary test met
