Limitation of biocides
Level: Core
The purpose of this requirement is to avoid biocidal products as they may contain substances that are hazardous to the environment and health.
Details
- Type:
- Technical specification
- ID:
- 11097
- Group:
- Cosmetic products
- Swedish:
Criterion text
The product shall not be intended to have an antimicrobial function, i.e. it can only contain biocides in order to preserve the product or the raw material in the product.
Verification
The supplier shall, upon request, be able to present any of for example the following:
- Valid license for any of for example the following labels:
Good Environmental Choice for Cosmetic products
Nordic Swan Ecolabel for Cosmetic products
- The product's declaration of contents
- The product's label or product sheet where it appears that the product is not marketed as a biocidal product.
Proposed follow-up
Labelling
If the requirement is verified with a label, check that there is a valid license for the product in question. This can be controlled here: Nordic Swan Ecolabel and Good Environmental Choice.
Product label/data sheet
This requirement can be verified by label or product data sheet. Check on the label / product data sheet that the product is not marketed with claims of biocide effects or similar. If there are such claims, the product does not meet the requirement.
Information about the criterion
This requirement can be verified with the product's label or product sheet. More information on this can be found under “follow-up”.
Biocidal products such as disinfectants are not covered by these criteria.
Environmental goals
Versions history
The version date indicates when the sustainability criterion was created or last updated. Last reviewed dated tells when we last checked that the sustainability criterion still is relevant.
- Current ID
- 11097
- Version date
- 2014-06-16
- Review date
- 2025-09-25