New Guidelines For School Cleaning

Grassroots Environmental Education, a Port Washington, N.Y.-based nonprofit, published its revised "ChildSafe Guidelines" for cleaning products used in schools and day-care centers, along with a list of products that meet the new guidelines. The new guidelines contain the most stringent requirements of any published green cleaning standard.

Originally developed in 2006 based on standards published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Interior, the guidelines set threshold limits for certain chemicals commonly found in commercial cleaning products, some of which have been associated with an increased incidence of environmentally mediated illnesses, including asthma, allergies, certain types of cancer, learning and behavioral disorders, endocrine disruption, chemical sensitivity and kidney or liver damage.

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