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Monday, October 22, 2012

The Relationship and Benefits of Codes, Regulations, Standards and Certification

The presentation provides an overview of the legal adoption process of codes, regulations/ordinances, and standards by state and local agencies having jurisdiction. The presentation will describe what the certification of a product by an accredited organization actually means.
This will provide the insight to an understanding of how these components can enhance one another to provide a more comprehensive protection to the public’s health. This understanding of the relationship will then provide the differences between codes, regulations and standards. The NSF standards development and product certification processes will be discussed along with the value of product certification marks and listings by an ANSI accredited organization during Plan Reviews and Approvals.

The presentation will also address the process to file a complaint with a certification body as well as what happens in a complaint investigations and routine certification monitoring and how environmental health professionals can leverage these as resources to enhance their public health programs. The presentation will have applicability to products encountered by the environmental health professionals such as food equipment, pool equipment, drinking water treatment devices and wastewater systems.

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