Eurofins Product Testing - Danish Indoor Climate label

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The Danish Indoor Climate Label

The Danish Indoor Climate Label DICL (Danish Indeklima Mærke DIM) is a voluntary system for labelling low VOC emission products. It is administered by DSIC with secretary at Teknologisk Institut.

Eurofins Product Testing A/S is one of the approved testing laboratories for DICL.

DICL goes for VOC emission testing until a satisfactory emission level has been reached. In addition, an odour evaluation is performed.

Result is the number of days needed for reaching the satisfactory level, and this declaration value will be on the label (in Danish: "tidsværdi").

The satisfactory level is reached when all identified VOC emissions are below 1/2 of their irritation thresholds, and when a dynamic odour test at time of the declaration value shows an acceptable odour.

The threshold for an acceptable odour is:
− Acceptability > 0 (0 = just acceptable)
− Odour intensity < 2 (2 = moderate odour)

In earlier versions, also odour thresholds had been taken for evaluation, but this was dropped in 2005 because of the inconsistency of odour threshold data.

Test methods and evaluation criteria are not available for download. They are available upon request from DSIC secretary.

Eurofins services

Eurofins offers documentation of compliance with above specifications on emissions of VOC, aldehydes and odour by independent testing.

Further Information

For further information please contact our national organisations or our specialists for making use of the experience of Eurofins, the world market leader for VOC emissions chamber testing.

Order forms and testing request forms for VOC testing are available for free download here.

Your direct contacts:

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

• Sales: Reinhard Oppl, email ReinhardOppl@eurofins.com
• Certification: Dr. Roland Augustin, email ccs@eurofins.com
• Testing laboratory: Thomas Neuhaus, email product-emissions@eurofins.com