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EBOM-v4 EQc7:Green cleaning - products and materials

Antimicrobial Hand Care products

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lynne olson
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Ecolab
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The LEED V4 EP Products & Materials language is "no antimicrobial agents (other than as a preservative) except where required by health codes and other regulations (e.g., food service and health care requirements)". Question is, where antimicrobial hand care products are used based on food service and health care codes, how is the purchase of these products handled? Is it basically invisible to the calculation (not in either the numerator or denominator used to calculate the %)?

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Anne White
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Transwestern Sustainability Services
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Tue, 11/11/2014 - 20:46

Hello Lynne, Thank you for the question. In our experience, we've included antimicrobial hand care products in the purchase calculations. If the LEED v4 Existing Building specific project is food or health care-based and you can provide documentation that the local code requires antimicrobial agents to be used, then you could exclude the purchases. When submitting the credit to GBCI for review, be sure to note the special circumstance in the box provided on the credit template and upload supporting documentation explaining why the antimicrobial handcare products were excluded. Also, hand sanitizers can meet Green Seal GS-41, Environmental Choice CCD-170, and EPA Design for the Environment Program's standard for safer cleaning products. If the antimicrobial hand care product meets one of the standards, I would suggest including it.

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