Eurofins Product Testing - Indoor Air Comfort - certified products

Many products are undergoing VOC chamber emission testing.
Eurofins is well known to be the world market leader for performing such tests in terms of capacity.

But a spot test does not tell us much about the properties of the product in future (e.g. after 1 week, 1 month, and 1 year). Clients and down-stream users may be in doubt.

  • Certification will help to establish trust, strengthening relationship between manufacturer and consumer.
  • Certification will also help the manufacturer to be prepared for reacting in an appropriate manner if complaints appear, either published in media, or sent in by individual customers. 

Certification means:

  • After an initial characterisation test, an external surveillance system will identify changes in the promised product properties, allowing the manufacturer to take corrective action.
  • An easily visible certification mark allows the user to assume the correctness of the manufacturer's statements without further investigations. In any case, only an existing quality assurance system of the manufacturer will ensure sufficiently constant properties.
  • Depending on the nature of the certified product, external surveillance may comprise repeated testing on random samples in regular intervals, or the same plus inspection of the quality documentation during audits at the manufacturing site. 

Certification services

Eurofins "Indoor Air Comfort" product certification shows compliance with emission requirements of all relevant European specifications on two levels:  

Standard level "Indoor Air Comfort - certified product" shows compliance of product emissions with the specifications issued by authorities in the EU. 

Higher level "Indoor Air Comfort GOLD - certified product" shows compliance of product emissions with the specifications issued all relevant voluntary labels and related specifications in the EU. 

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A certified product can apply for whatever other label on basis of the test report as regards emissions into indoor air. But Eurofins "Indoor Air Comfort" certificate may be used as such - e.g. in countries and for products where no public low emission label exists. 

Please click here a list of labels for which Eurofins test reports are accepted.

Organisation 

  1. Initial Type Testing in test chamber (Testing schedule will be product type specific) 
  2. Evaluation of test result (Criteria will be product type specific) 
  3. Contract between manufacturer and certifier including agreements on exclusion of certain raw material, factory production control, QC documentation, etc. 
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  4. Third party auditing of production sites including control of emission relevant documentation in QC, on regular basis
  5. Certificate, may be used for marketing purposes 
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  6. Eurofins test reports are accepted by most EU labels 
  7. Repeated tests on an regular basis for more reliability of forecast 
  8. Continuous review and improvement of specifications, testing procedures and audit procedures

Eurofins Indoor Air Comfort product certifications is working in partnership with the US Indoor Advantage and Indoor Advantage Gold Certification operated by Scientific Certification Systems SCS.

All these certificates may be important for showing compliance of a product with purchase specifications, or with sustainable or "green" building project and certifications.

Further Information

German ÜZ certification, CE mark

Eurofins is approved certification body ("ÜZ-Stelle") for the German Ü mark for floorings. Eurofins may offer both - VOC and formaldehyde emission testing and auditing / certification for floor coverings in Germany. These products need a special German "Ü" approval of low emissions, besides the CE mark, before they are allowed to be used in most indoor applications. 

Eurofins also is on its way to become notified body for CE marking of floor coverings.

Back to main page on VOC emission testing.

Contact

For further information please contact our national organisations or our Eurofins certification organisation.