By The Restoration HQ desk · · filed under Regulation & Standards
NORMI trademarks a competing mold protocol
NORMI published and trademarked its Medically-Sound Level 4 Protocol™, a branded mold-remediation protocol alongside the ANSI/IICRC S520 standard.
FORA medically-grounded protocol raises the bar for mold work and gives serious remediators a way to prove it.
AGAINSTTwo certifying bodies with two trademarked protocols is how you get a standards war that confuses homeowners and gives carriers a reason to argue every mold scope.
Consensus vs. contrarianContrarian: a trademarked protocol competing with an ANSI standard isn't standardization, it's product differentiation, and the operator caught between them will be the one explaining to an adjuster why their protocol counts.
Sources Cleanfax, cleanfax.com/normi-publishes-normi-medically… ()
Terms in this story: IICRC S520