NSF Special Section-NSF International: Protecting Public Health for More than 60 Years
In 2004, NSF International celebrated its 60th anniversary as the premier Public Health and Safety Company. What started out as the vision of three professors in the University of Michigan's School of Public Health to improve food and water safety for U.S. consumers is now a worldwide organization serving the water, food, and many other industries with operations in more than 80 countries.
The Food Equipment certification program is NSF's oldest offering, developed following the creation and approval of NSF flagship restaurant-industry standards in 1944. Today, there are over 100,000 products that NSF certifies to one or more of the 22 NSF food equipment standards in existence. The NSF Certification Mark on a food equipment product demonstrates that NSF has assessed-and certified-the product's conformity with the relevant NSF/ANSI standard, which includes successful completion of annual production facility audits.