NSF (National Science Foundation)
Standard 50 covers everything from pools and spas to water parks and water treatment facilities.
WHAT: NSF (National Science Foundation, formerly the National Sanitation Foundation updated their Standard 50.
Standard 50 covers everything from pools and spas to water parks and water treatment facilities. The new addendum offers standards of language solely for pool chemicals and the effects of direct skin contact or inhalation of chemical gasses.
In order to comply with Standard 50, chemical manufacturers must now provide very specific information, to be listed within the package labeling. The specific information includes maximum dosages, lot/batch number, and the chemical or product name. In addition, the chemicals would then have to be tested and must fall within exposure parameters.
WHO: Residential home owners, service professionals/companies, retail stores and chemical manufacturers.
Consumers will be able to use this new information as a tool for evaluating the product and for making a more informed purchase.
Chemical manufacturers will be the most affected by the update as they will have to provide information that wasn’t previously required and they have to now meet the new requirements to carry the NSF listing.
WHERE: The addendum to Standard 50 will apply in any states that put it into regulation. NSF does expect the addendum to become regulation in just about all states.
WHEN: The addendum passed in September of 2015, and is currently being implemented.
WHY: NSF has created the addendum to address chemicals that are created that have unknown toxicity levels and more importantly the ways that these chemicals are possible misused unknowingly which can create unsafe situations in environments where patrons can be directly affected.
