Nsf International

The nsf global labs division provides engineering, chemistry, microbiology, and toxicology lab and testing services across all major industries impacting public and environmental health and safety, including plastic and plumbing testing services. Testing revenue generally consist of testing and certifying products for compliance with applicable safety standards, each of which contain technical specifications or other precise criteria that products must meet in order to be certified as compliant with requirements designed to mitigate risk, injury, or hazards to the public. If the product passes testing to the standard, then certification is granted based on said standard. If the product fails testing to the standard, the customer may agree to retesting of the product or receive a report of failure. The customer may use the report to remediate product for future testing to the standard.

The nsf life sciences division offers reference standards, certification, and testing services for consumer products across the dietary supplement and cosmetics, and functional food industries to help protect public health and environment and minimize adverse health effects from such products and industries.

The food retail & assurance division includes both food equipment and nonfood compounds certification. The food equipment program tests and certifies food equipment products for acceptance across the us, europe, and other global markets. The nonfood compounds program offers risk management solutions for nonfood compounds and proprietary substances (i.e., lubricants, cleaners, and water treatment chemicals used in food and beverage processing).

Food supply chain solutions includes both food supply chain and food product claims business which focuses on ensuring safety across the supply chain. Services include independent testing, auditing, and certification services to assure suppliers, retailer, regulators, and consumers that a product or system has been reviewed for compliance with standards for safety, quality, and sustainability or performance.

The commercial business includes both standards and toxicology. Under the standards program, nsf facilitates the process of developing new standards and maintenance of our existing standards, which is over 80 published documents. Our team works to ensure that all policies and procedures are followed and that our stakeholders are equipped to have conversations leading to consensus; this includes but is not limited to schedule/coordination of meetings, sharing essential documentation (reference standards, data, meeting summaries, etc.), committee membership recruitment and leading the balloting process for new standards and revisions to published standards. The nsf toxicology business provides chemical hazard and risk characterization in the water, food, pesticides and consumer products spaces. Services include evaluation of product risk or safety, expert evaluation of exposure based on intended use of product, as well as associated risk characterization based on chemical hazards including product ingredients and contaminants.