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Congratulations on Your Purchase of a
GREENGUARD Certified Product
GREENGUARD…creating healthier indoor environments.
Benefits of GREENGUARD Certified Products
• Furnishing your home with GREENGUARD low-emitting
products allows you to create a healthier indoor environment by
improving your home’s indoor air quality.
• The GREENGUARD
Program ensures that products meet
some of the most stringent chemical emissions requirements in the
world. Products have been independently, screened for
more than 10,000 chemicals, and they are regularly monitored and
re-tested to ensure they still comply with GREENGUARD’s stringent
chemical emissions standards.
• By selecting a third-party
independently tested product, you
can be assured you are choosing healthier products for your home’s
indoor air quality. GREENGUARD
•
demonstrates a manufacturer’s commitment to the
health and well being of people.
• You can all GREENGUARD products in a free, user-
friendly online database—the largest of its kind— to help you create
healthier, sustainable indoor environments. Products are searchable
by product type and manufacturer.
Health Impacts of Poor Indoor Air Quality
• Trigger asthma and allergy attacks
• Cause headaches and like symptoms
• People received their highest personal exposures to VOCs in homes
(Gokhale et al 2008).
• Children exposed to high levels of VOCs were four times more likely
to develop asthma than adults (Rumchev et al 2004).
• From 1980 to 1994, the proportion of children under
the age of with asthma increased by 160% (US EPA 2005).
GREENGUARD Certification Programs
Improving indoor air quality by certifying products for
low chemical emissions.
Why is Indoor Air Quality Important?
Whether inside a home, school, business or hospital, people expect
their indoor environments to be healthy and safe. Unfortunately, indoor
spaces are often with potentially harmful pollutants.
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are chemicals that are released into
the air from everyday furnishings, building materials and products—
items like furniture, and cleaners. Once airborne, VOCs
can be easily inhaled by building occupants and trigger
a number of health problems.
What is GREENGUARD Certification?
Simply put, GREENGUARD ensures that a product is
low-emitting. Products carrying the GREENGUARD mark have been
independently tested and re-tested to demonstrate that they meet
GREENGUARD’s rigorous third-party chemical emission standards.
GREENGUARD’s standards are based on established emission criteria
used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State of
California, Germany’s Blue Angel program and reputable public health
agencies.
What Programs Does GREENGUARD Offer?
• GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality products are used in
commercial buildings
• GREENGUARD Children & Schools
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products are used in
educational settings and other
sensitive environments
More than 300 manufacturers voluntarily participate in the
GREENGUARD Program
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, resulting in the of
more than 11,000 products.
Indoor air can be 2-5x more polluted than outdoor air.
People spend 90% of their time indoors.
Poor indoor air quality has short- and long-term health impacts.
For more information on creating a healthier indoor environment,
go to www.greenguard.org and take the interactive house tour under
the consumer’s page.
Felicitaciones por su compra de un producto
certificado por GREENGUARD
GREENGUARD…creando ambientes interiores más
saludables.
Beneficios de los productos certificados por GREENGUARD
• El equipar su hogar con productos de baja emisión por
GREENGUARD le permite crear un ambiente de interior más sano
mejorando la calidad del aire interior de su hogar.
• El programa de GREENGUARD asegura que los
productos cumplan con algunos de los requisitos de emisiones
químicas más rigurosos del mundo. Los productos han sido
comprobados independientemente y
por más de
10,000 químicos, y son regularmente monitoreados y reensayados
para asegurar que sigan cumpliendo con las rigurosas normas de
emisiones químicas de GREENGUARD.
• Al elegir un producto comprobado independientemente,
puede estar seguro de que está escogiendo productos más sanos
para la calidad de su aire de interior.
• La
GREENGUARD demuestra el compromiso del
fabricante para con la salud y el bienestar de la gente.
• Puede encontrar todos los productos por GREENGUARD
en una base de datos gratis, en línea, fácil de usar (la más grande
de su clase), para ayudarle a crear ambientes de interiores más
saludables y sostenibles. Se pueden buscar productos por tipo de
producto y por fabricante
Impactos de la mala calidad del aire interior
• Dispara ataques de asma y alergias
• Causa dolores de cabeza y síntomas de gripe
• La gente recibe su máxima exposición a los COVs en sus hogares
(Gokhale et al 2008).
• La exposición de los niños a altos niveles de COVs hace que sean
cuatro veces más propensos a desarrollar asma que los adultos
(Rumchev et al 2004).
• Desde 1980 hasta 1994, la proporción de niños demenos de cinco
años con asma aumentó 160% (US EPA 2005).
Programas de certificación GREENGUARD
Mejorando la calidad del aire interior
productos para bajas emisiones de químicos.
¿Por qué es importante la calidad del aire interior?
Ya sea dentro de su hogar, en la escuela, el trabajo o el hospital,
la gente espera que su ambiente interior sea saludable y seguro.
Desafortunadamente, los espacios interiores se encuentran a menudo
llenos de contaminantes potencialmente dañinos.
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