Get a Whiff of This:
The Lowdown on Product Emissions Testing

A product’s toxicity can be measured by analyzing its ingredients, or by putting it in a sealed chamber and measuring its emissions—compounds released from the product into the air over time. This article discusses product emissions and the programs that test and evaluate those emissions using the latter technique. Emission rates usually decrease over a product’s life, so, in lab testing, products or product components are placed in a chamber for a number of days and allowed to offgas under controlled...