Eurofins Product Testing - CA Section 1350
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California Section 01350 Specification (Feb 2010 version) is the most popular US standard for evaluating and restricting VOC emissions indoor air. Developed in California, more and more rating systems are referring to CA Section 01350. While latest revision occured in February 2010, recently another revision process has started.
Here you can see the changes of 2010 version compared to 2004 version. And please see here the earlier version as of 2004 to which reference still is made for LEED and for FloorScore.
CA Section 01350 complying products meet the indoor air emissions criteria of:
- Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS)
- Indoor Advantage Gold™ certification
- FloorScore label for low emission resilient and hard floorings
- Several LEED Indoor Environmental Quality criteria.
Emission chamber tests are performed for VOCs and aldehydes after a 10 days storage period, after (in total) 11, 12 and 14 days. Test results are calculated for two reference rooms: A school class room and an open-plan office room, with defined temperature, relative humidity and ventilation. The resulting air concentrations then are rated against the Chronic Reference Exposure Levels (CRELs ) concentrations published by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and procedures developed by the US EPA. Assuming that other products in an office or classroom may be sources of VOCs, CA Section 01350 compliance requires any products not to exceed one-half the allowable concentration limits. For a comparison of these CREL values with European limit values for VOC, please click here.
A comparison of test data showed the equivalency of EMICODE EC1, Blue Angel and CA Section 01350 requirements.
Testing services
Eurofins Product Testing A/S is one of the testing laboratories ISO 17025 accredited and SCS approved for CA Section 01350 testing, and listed on Section 01350 homepage.
Please click here for details of Section 01350 specification, and for 2009 updating process.
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.
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