Luckily, most of today's corned beef is processed without nitrates (saltpeter), which used to be used as a preservative against botulism and to maintain the bright red color.
OSHA, an agency of the Department of Labor, publishes a list of Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories. Organizations currently recognized by OSHA as NRTLs: 1  Canadian Standards Association (CSA) (also known as CSA International). 2  Communication Certification Laboratory, Inc. (CCL).he testing and certification are done to U.S. consensus-based product safety test standards. These test standards are not developed or issued by OSHA, but are issued by U.S. standards organizations, such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
When it comes time to test your products to. North American product safety standards, you. may be led to believe that your choices are. limited to certain marks, such as the UL Listed. Mark. In reality, there are others equally recog-. nized and accepted â prominent among them, the. ETL Listed Mark issued by the ETL SEMKO division of. Intertek. Like the UL Mark, the ETL Listed Mark shows that your. product has been independently tested by a Nationally. Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). That it has met the. minimum requirements of widely accepted product safety. standards.