When it comes to Commercial Kitchen Equip. What's the difference between NSF Certified & CSA Design Certified?

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When it comes to Commercial Kitchen Equip. What's the difference between NSF Certified & CSA Design Certified?

Answer 1

NSF is an American independant company that helps protect you by certifying products and writes standards for food water and consumer goods.

CSA is the Canadian Standard Association that does the same

Answer 2

      NSF In most cases, if you are not a food service professional, NSF certified products are not an issue. For the home or amateur chef, product performance and quality are of higher importance than the guarantee of product safety since almost all major brands of cookware and kitchen equipment self-regulate and maintain at least the minimum level of safety standards in their choice of materials and manufacturing processes.

For the professional kitchen, NSF certification is very important. For many restaurants, the use of NSF certified products is a necessity to show the company has done their job in protecting their customers by selecting products known and tested to be safe. Supermarkets butcher their meats with NSF certified equipment and fast food chains cook with tool bearing the NSF mark to protect themselves as much as their customers

      CSA International (CSA) is a well-respected testing and certification agency with laboratories in the U.S. and Canada. CSA International’s Cleveland facility tests and certifies products, and also serves as the secretariat to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards for U.S. gas appliances, equipment and components. CSA International generally tests and certifies natural gas appliances and equipment to ANSI standards.

AGA understands that the CSA International marks are recognized and accepted in the United States by federal, state and municipal officials. The CSA marks indicate that gas appliances and equipment designs meet minimum defined safety and performance standards, including the appropriate ANSI standard.