News Brief

California Releases Standard Practice for VOC Testing

On July 15, 2004 the California Department of Health Services (DHS) released its “

Standard Practice for the Testing of Volatile Organic Emissions from Various Sources Using Small-Scale Environmental Chambers.” This practice document supersedes the small-scale environmental chamber testing portion of California Specification 01350 and fills in many of the gaps in that specification, such as the procedures for collecting and handling product samples. The new practice document can provide a basis for testing and screening of products according to their indoor emissions, without reference to any specific building. It is, to

EBN’s knowledge, the only product emissions protocol that is fully transparent and therefore usable by any lab or certification program. It is also being considered by the D22.05 Indoor Air Quality Subcommittee of ASTM International as an ASTM Practice Standard. The Practice was developed by the Indoor Air Quality Section of the Environmental Health Laboratory Branch of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control of DHS on behalf of the California Sustainable Building Task Force. It is available as document #CA/DHS/EHLB/R-174 from http://www.cal-iaq.org/VOC/

Published August 1, 2004

(2004, August 1). California Releases Standard Practice for VOC Testing. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/california-releases-standard-practice-voc-testing

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