Environmental health label for French construction and decorating products

The labels, introduced on January 1 2012, will allow customers to base their purchase choices on a product’s calculated impact on the air inside their homes, in line with a decree signed by the French Sustainable Development Ministry, Health Ministry, and Finance Ministry in May 2011.
March 26, 2012 Read time: 1 min

The labels, introduced on January 1 2012, will allow customers to base their purchase choices on a product’s calculated impact on the air inside their homes, in line with a decree signed by the French Sustainable Development Ministry, Health Ministry, and Finance Ministry in May 2011.

Volatile pollutant emission levels with grades ranging from A+, highlighting low emission levels, to C will be recorded on the labels.

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