Hoped-For Consensus on IAQ Falls Apart

Competing standards for building product emissions represent one of the most confusing areas in green product certifications, and relief may not be on the way. A highly anticipated effort faces questions following a joint June 3, 2011 announcement from NSF International and Greenguard Environmental Institute (GEI) that the two would pursue separate paths. The two groups had been working together to develop a single, robust, health-based standard for indoor volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).