NSF Equipment? NSF Certified? Commercial Equipment?

Today I’m gonna talk about some terms inspectors like to throw around: things like ‘NSF Certified’ and ‘Commercial Equipment’.

What the heck does all that mean?

This is a topic that gets my ‘red’ up.

What’s in the video this time?

• What exactly is NSF? (Hint, it’s a private company)
  • How they don’t actually certify equipment.
  • They stamp things as compliant to a code, one they wrote!
  • Why every state, pretty much, uses their codes as the standard
  • Standard 59- ANSI. What’s that? The code NSF wrote.

• How there are contradictions in the code
  • Case study: Carts & Motorized Transport?

• How some states in the past wrote unconstitutional laws requiring NSF Certification. Most now just say, “meets the standards of…”

• How companies can test their own equipment to meet the standards. Ben’s Carts did!

• What Commercial vs Residential means?
  • Who decides if a piece of equipment is ‘commercial’? The manufacturer! There is no real standard.

• What to say if your inspector says you have to have NSF or Commercial equipment.
  • “Can you direct me to the code about that?”

Watch the video! I get kinda riled up about this stuff

What ever you do, don’t let all this crap stop you from vending!

Just follow my advice and the advice of thousands of other vendors, and you’ll be fine!

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