Voluntary Chemist Certification Program Applications, Notices, and Records

For imports of alcohol beverages, many foreign countries require product testing as a condition of entry, and many of those countries will accept a report of analysis of imported alcohol beverages from a chemist certified by the exporting country's government. As such, TTB offers its Voluntary Chemist Certification Program as a service to the American alcohol beverage industry to facilitate exportation of domestic beverage alcohol products to foreign markets. This voluntary TTB program ensures that American chemists, enologists, brewers, and alcohol beverage industry technicians (hereafter collectively referred to as "chemists") have the required proficiencies to conduct the required chemical analyses and generate quality data for such product tests. The information collection for TTB's voluntary chemist certification program includes the applications for certification, submission of laboratory test results, requests for TTB-affirmed reports of analysis, and notices to TTB regarding changes in a certified chemist's place of employment place or status. Under this program, TTB certified chemists and their laboratories must also maintain usual and customary business records regarding all analytical results conducted under the TTB certification and those related to laboratory equipment, quality control policies, procedures and systems, and analyst training and competence. This information collection chemists have the proficiency to conduct any chemical analysis required by importing countries. .

The latest form for Voluntary Chemist Certification Program Applications, Notices, and Records expires 2028-06-30 and can be found here.