What is Special About the Safer Choice Label?
Safer Choice is EPA’s label for safer chemical-based products. Every chemical, regardless of percentage, in a Safer Choice-certified product is evaluated through EPA’s rigorous scientific process and only the safest ingredients are allowed. For over 15 years, the program [...]
EPA Provides Interim Guidance on Porous Surfaces
While EPA-Registration of products for hard surface disinfection is the bedrock of many infection control programs that protect human health, EPA has now also developed evidence-based guidance for porous surfaces...
The Road to Success: Provide Value
In his book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, green business expert Shel Horowitz says: "In the business world, we hear a lot about cutthroat competition and gaining advantage over the enemy. In some circles, it seems to be a [...]
What is Engineered Water?
The Engineered Water Consortium (EWC) defined Engineered Water (EW) as: “Water engineered to meet the performance requirements of professional cleaning, sanitizing and/or disinfecting, with long-term value and green factors as key uptake and ethical drivers, and On Site Generation (OSG) [...]
Quality or Quantity?
When cleaning, is it quality or quantity that counts? Dr. Bill Bellows, a member of our council, writing in the Lean Management Journal said: “The word ‘quality’ has Latin roots,…
EPA Registers Air Sanitizer That Kills Viruses
On September 30, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered the first ever product for use against bacteria and viruses in air in residential and commercial areas. It is a 14% dipropylene glycol aerosol product. Below is the approved master [...]
Two Commonly Asked Questions About Green Cleaning and Sustainability
“In the context of sustainability, when can we use nontoxic natural cleansers and disinfectants such as baking soda and peroxide? When do we actually need something stronger?”
Cleaning Chemical Chemistry
Cleaning and disinfecting products often contain chemicals. There are more than 80,000 chemicals in legal use—many of them in cleaning products—despite limited long-term safety testing, or more importantly, testing in mixtures as they occur indoors. Short or long-term exposure to [...]
Hygienic Green Cleaning – The Next Wave
By John Downey In the past two decades the concept of “green” cleaning has progressed from the fringe to the mainstream. Many cleaning professionals who once looked skeptically at “environmentally friendly” chemicals and practices now embrace it because many green-cleaning [...]