Green Seal is announcing an extension to the deadlines for certified products under its Environmental Standard for Industrial & Institutional Cleaners, GS-37 (2006), to be re-certified under the revised standard, GS-37 (2008).  The new deadline for submitting all re-certification applications and relevant data will be July 29, 2009, and the final deadline for having all such products re-certified will be November 29, 2009.  (The original deadlines were April 29, 2009, and August 29, 2009, respectively.)

Green Seal is providing this three-month extension after receiving significant feedback from the cleaning industry that the current severe recessionary environment is causing unexpected and unprecedented pressures on businesses, large and small.  A reasonable extension in the time for products to meet the new standard will help the industry in making any necessary changes to their products while also tending to the larger issues of the recession.  Green Seal believes that the small delay in getting more products that are compliant with the revised standard into the marketplace will not cause undue difficulty to purchasers, since a number of products are already in the process of being re-certified.

For more information regarding the extension please contact Green Seal through email at certification@greenseal.org or by phone at (202) 872-6400.