Regulation of indoor VOC emissions

In most countries, a separate definition of VOCs is used with regard to indoor air quality that
comprises each organic chemical compound that can be measured as follows: Adsorption
from air on Tenax TA, thermal desorption, gas chromatographic separation over a 100%
nonpolar column (dimethylpolysiloxane). VOC (volatile organic compounds) are all
compounds that appear in the gas chromatogram between and including n-hexane and nhexadecane. Compounds appearing earlier are called VVOC (very volatile organic
compounds) compounds appearing later are called SVOC (semi-volatile organic compounds).
See also these standards: ISO 16000-6, ISO 13999-2, VDI 4300-6, German AgBB evaluating
scheme, German DIBt approval scheme, GEV testing method for the EMICODE. Some
overviews over VOC emissions rating schemes [26] have been collected and compared.