I recently spoke with a representative of a cleaning company while researching the list of cleaning products a client wished to use in her facility. The representative told me that two of their products do not and can not achieve Green Seal of any other certification because of an EPA directive stating that no disinfectant can have ANY third-party certifications associated with it.
Has anyone else run into this situation? Are there any pathways other than established certifications by which disinfectants can meet the credit requirements?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
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July 12, 2010 - 9:44 pm
This is an interesting issue that I had not heard about, but I did find this helpful document on the Green Seal website about the relationship between FIFRA and certification.The representative you spoke with is partially correct. Products registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) cannot display a certification logo such as Green Seal's. However, they can be certified.