NSC 373 Chain of Custody Standard

This Natural Stone Council Chain of Custody Standard has been developed as part of theongoing efforts of a number of interested parties to document and improve the sustainabilityprofile of natural dimension stone production. This standard complements American NationalStandard, NSF/ANSI 373 – Sustainability Assessment for Natural Dimension Stone, by drivingsustainability throughout the supply chain, ensuring that natural stone products that aresustainably produced, are also handled throughout the supply chain in a manner that ensurestheir sustainability. These requirements are intended to form the basis of conformity assessmentprograms, such as third-party certification or registration.

The standard applies to all organizations in the supply chain of natural stone, both domestic andinternational, that take legal ownership of natural stone products and that wish to make ormaintain a certified genuine stone claim. Organizations directly engaged in the quarry orprocessing of natural stone should refer to the ANSI/NSF 373 standard. A company intending toapply for certification will need to purchase the chain of custody standard in order to pursuecertification. The certifier will not provide these.

This standard was developed through a multi-stakeholder process, led by Ecoform, LLC, anorganization with extensive standards development experience. Stakeholders involved indeveloping the Standard included stone producers, fabricators, distributors, as well as end userssuch as architects, academics, and other interested parties. While developed through a robuststakeholder process, the NSC would like to acknowledge that deliberations around specificcriteria were informed by several existing standards, most notably the Forestry StewardshipCouncil entitled FSC Standard for Chain of Custody Certification (FSC-STD-40-004 V2-1 EN),upon which the structure of this standard is based.

Published:

03/24/2014

Number of Pages:

16