Founded 1944
NSF International
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Not-for-profit public health and safety organization that develops standards and provides independent testing and certification for products touching food, water, and consumer health, such as food-service equipment, water filtration systems, and dietary supplements, to verify compliance with public-health-based standards.
- Headquarters
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Founded
- 1944
- Website
- www.nsf.org
Notable facts
- Founded in 1944 by Walter Snyder, Henry Vaughan, and Nathan Sinai within the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
- Introduced NSF Standards 1 and 2 for food equipment, marking the start of its standards-development work.
- Became a not-for-profit corporation and moved into new Ann Arbor, Michigan headquarters and laboratories in 1967.
- Renamed itself NSF International in 1990 to reflect its expanding global scope.
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