Steve Lawrence
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Who does this?
Is there a certification organization that tests our chemicals for safety, etc.?
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Hoody
Supportive Member
The EPA ?
Shawn Forsythe
RIP
Greenseal (greenseal.org) and US EPA (US EPA DFE program) are two entities that offer certifications to assist the public in finding chemicals that meet their design standards. They do so in cooperation with manufacturers that test their own products and/or evaluate the chemical components. They "screen" each ingredient for potential human health and environmental effects. But that is as far as they go. They are not without some measure of controversy, because there are identified manners in which suspect products can be made to comply (creative use instructions), but do not readily seem to be logically "safe". As well, some conditions of compliance considered onerous and irrelevant are employed, due to lobbying (e.g. promotion of using cold water, versus hot, as creation of hot water itself expends fuel, etc).
Since just about any chemical compound can be potentially hazardous, the public is urged to make their own discretionary decisions based upon examination of MSDS sheets that should indicate possible hazards, and mitigation methods.
greenseal.org
http://www.epa.gov/dfe/
Since just about any chemical compound can be potentially hazardous, the public is urged to make their own discretionary decisions based upon examination of MSDS sheets that should indicate possible hazards, and mitigation methods.
greenseal.org
http://www.epa.gov/dfe/
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Steve Lawrence
Member
Very helpful. Thanks, Shawn.
The Great Oz
Member
Depends on what you mean by safety. Greenseal is only concerned about whether your chemistry is safe for fish and water fowl if you pour your waste in the nearest lake. Your safety, or your customer's, is a concern somewhere down the line behind a lot of good sounding but silly stuff. A Greenseal stamp on stuff for our industry is just for marketing purposes.
The EPA's Designed for the Environment program is geared toward removing health hazards to people and making your waste safer to dump in the river. They maintain lists of chemicals that are known to be harmful, and have other lists of chemicals that might be used in place of the harmful ones. Remove the bad stuff from yor juice, pay to jump through some hoops and get a DFE approval. http://epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/formulat/formpart.htm
The EPA's Designed for the Environment program is geared toward removing health hazards to people and making your waste safer to dump in the river. They maintain lists of chemicals that are known to be harmful, and have other lists of chemicals that might be used in place of the harmful ones. Remove the bad stuff from yor juice, pay to jump through some hoops and get a DFE approval. http://epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/formulat/formpart.htm
