Cleanlink News September 11 2009
EPA Moves Forward With Green Disinfectants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials announced they are poised to move forward with the green disinfectant and sanitizer pilot program at a September 3 meeting of the Workgroup on Comparative Safety Statements for Pesticide Product Labeling. According to ISSA reports, the program will consist of two tracks: (1) The EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) product recognition and (2) limited statements of environmental preferability.
At the September 3 meeting, EPA representatives presented the parameters under which the EPA Antimicrobial Division (AD) will allow the use of the DfE logo on the label and with the general promotion of certain disinfectants and sanitizers. EPA officials envision a two-part review process under which products would have to complete the DfE review and then complete a review by AD.
The pilot program also will encompass a track that allows registrants to make certain limited factual statements of environmental preferability in regard to disinfectants and sanitizers. In regard to this aspect of the pilot, EPA significantly cut back on the claims it would allow to be made in conjunction with such products.
