The National Sanitation Foundation (now called NSF International) was a grand idea of three profs at the University of Michigan. Drs. Walter Snyder, Henry Vaughan, and Nathan Sinai established the concept at the School of Public Health. The goal was to create national standards for food safety and sanitation- as opposed to the piecemeal state approach that then obtained. By 1967, it became a non-profit entity. (I’ll discuss this more below.)