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Green Ballance: "First, ingredients are approved or on an approved list of at least one third party green certification organization. Second, they are in formulas directly approved by at least one third party green certification organization."
Which brings up the question (a good technique is to just follow the money): Who pays the third party for it's certificate and consideration of an ingredient "green"-ness?
Is it similar to the "Free-range", "Cage-free" etc designations to satisfy our wish for cruelty free raising of meat animals?
And we definitely know how little these actually mean.
Many years ago, in the hype days of "Teflon" I personally knew one of the "independent" "third party" organizations that reached positively glowing "research" conclusions on the product's excellent qualities. To my knowledge it was one man and personally I had my doubts about its independence.
Which brings up the question (a good technique is to just follow the money): Who pays the third party for it's certificate and consideration of an ingredient "green"-ness?
Is it similar to the "Free-range", "Cage-free" etc designations to satisfy our wish for cruelty free raising of meat animals?
And we definitely know how little these actually mean.
Many years ago, in the hype days of "Teflon" I personally knew one of the "independent" "third party" organizations that reached positively glowing "research" conclusions on the product's excellent qualities. To my knowledge it was one man and personally I had my doubts about its independence.
- Who pays the bill for the research conclusions (inclusion of ingredient in given list) ?
- Would the bill be paid if the conclusions did not suit the needs?
- Is there an incentive to reach the "right" conclusion?
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