Hello and welcome to my Green Products Post. My job as a Government Contract Officer's Representative (Fort Lee, VA) allows me some leeway in determining products for use in our janitorial contract. I start of with checking with Federal Industries and determining what products they have available, as by law, we must use their products first. This allowed me about a 35% of green products right off the bat in which the contractor had to comply by law.

For additional products, I sought out information from the contractor Project Manager and determined he too had a list of products that were available for use, but had to be approved prior to use. I worked with him to develop our list of products determining products from bathroom cleaning through floor care products, establishing a list that bought our percentage up to over 90, but had to be both researched and tested. Research was done through the products' data sheets to insure the product was really  "green" and not just labeled as such. One the data sheets confirmed the ingredients of the product and we could verify the product as being green, we tested each and every one to see what the results would be after using the product in different situations and environments.

Details were measured and recorded for record, placed in a database easily showing it's green content and use for specific types of cleaning and floor work and submitted for approval to be used by the contractor.