Indoor Air Comfort label was presented at Consense congress and exhibition
Indoor Air Comfort label was presented at Consense congress and exhibition, 22nd + 23rd June 2010 at Stuttgart, Germany. Indoor Air Comfort is a product certification program for showing low VOC emissions of products into indoor air, for promoting living comfort indoors by ensuring good indoor air quality. The program combines requirements of most European national labels into one set of specifications, on two quality levels - Indoor Air Comfort, and Indoor Air Comfort GOLD.
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Eurofins Product Testing - Ecolabels, Quality Labels, and VOC emissions

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Please also click below for more general information

Quality labels tell you about product performance, and environmental labels (ecolabels) tell you that the product has lower impact on nature or man compared to other products. All these labels are private and voluntary.

Some countries established compulsory evaluation of certain properties, such as European CE marking, German GS marking, restrictions of VOC and formaldehyde emissions in California, in France and in Germany, and quite some more.

Sustainablity of the product through its life time is the basis for some but not all ecolabels.

VOC emissions from construction products are relevant for indoor air quality are regulated in Germany (AgBB guidance and DIBt Ü mark approval of construction products - see information in English, in German, in French), in France, and in Japanese regulations. For formaldehyde there is more regulation available, e.g. European E1 classification and Californian CARB regulation. But in many other countries this issue is subject to voluntary ecolabelling schemes.

Please see also presentations by different VOC emissions rating schemes and potential for harmonization (VOC workshop at Healthy Buildings 2009)

Some examples for such low VOC emission rating schemes form part of:

Your Eurofins laboratory can advise you which tests are required for the different labels. Testing is performed by Eurofins for most of the labels in Europe and also for US market related purposes - for a non-comprehensive list of labels please click here. Eurofins now partners with SCS (California) on VOC emission testing. The international presence of the Eurofins laboratories allows you to save money by having tested a product only once, following a testing protocol giving results that are accepted by several national labels. Eurofins can assist you with application for the different national labels.

Besides working for national labels, Eurofins offers an umbrella-like certification programme Indoor Air Comfort - certified products for achieving more reliability and for establishing more trust of purchasers and of end-users, and for showing compliance with all relevant VOC emission rating schemes - in the first run only in Europe.

For more details on certification vs. just labelling, please see also the publication "Product certification – a new tool for good indoor air quality" in Gefahrstoffe 69 (2009) 3, 115-116, see www.gefahrstoffe.de

Further Information

For further information please contact our national organisations or our specialists.

Your direct contacts:

Direct contact to Eurofins Product Testing A/S, the world market leader for VOC emissions chamber testing:

Eurofins Product Testing A/S
Smedeskovvej 38
8464 Galten
Denmark

Phone: +45 7022 4276

US office:

2200 Rittenhouse St., Suite 150
Des Moines, IA  50321
Phone: (202) 657-6584