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Project of Follow-up and Surveillance on the Environmental Protection Products (2-year project)

Absrtact	During the project implementation period of May, 2021 to Feb 28, 2023, this project has completed all required tasks. The completed tasks included: (1) In accordance with the approved annual plan for follow-up and surveillance activities, and the requirements of additional work item on the inspection of dry powder fire extinguishers, a total of 649 green products have been sampled and tested. Among them, 16 products from 13 manufacturers/agents were found to be non-complying with their specific product criteria, or found to contain IARC Group I carcinogens after random sampling and testing of the dry powder in sampled fire extinguishers. The non-compliances found in these products indicated that they have poor quality control and that they are different from the products described in the Green Mark application documents. Therefore, all the non-conforming products have had their Green Mark usage certificates revoked by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (“TEPA”); and (2) This project conducted the inspection of Green Mark labeling of green products at their retail venues (including stores, sales points and delivery warehouses, and e-commerce platforms), as well as the Green Mark labeling of kiln-fired resource-based building materials of the ceramic tile product category. A total of 1,437 products were subjected to such inspections and no incidents were found of any misuse of the Green Mark eco-label. Regarding the routine operations part of this project, the verification of 8 products non-compliances from 7 companies had been completed. It was confirmed that 5 products from 4 companies had indeed incorrectly used the Green Mark ecolabel, and that they had taken the corrective actions within the specified time period. In addition, the Green Mark implementation organization is continuing to trial use the surveillance and follow-up system, and reported to the system developing company the deficiencies of the system, in order to help with the software system refinement efforts. Moreover, the implementation organization had conducted joint product sampling activities for biodegradable plastic products on 9 companies with the TEPA, and facilitated many potential applicants in applying for the use of Green Mark ecolabel.
Keyword	Green Mark, Follow-up/surveillance and verification, sampling and testing

Absrtact

During the project implementation period of May, 2021 to Feb 28, 2023, this project has completed all required tasks. The completed tasks included: (1) In accordance with the approved annual plan for follow-up and surveillance activities, and the requirements of additional work item on the inspection of dry powder fire extinguishers, a total of 649 green products have been sampled and tested. Among them, 16 products from 13 manufacturers/agents were found to be non-complying with their specific product criteria, or found to contain IARC Group I carcinogens after random sampling and testing of the dry powder in sampled fire extinguishers. The non-compliances found in these products indicated that they have poor quality control and that they are different from the products described in the Green Mark application documents. Therefore, all the non-conforming products have had their Green Mark usage certificates revoked by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (“TEPA”); and (2) This project conducted the inspection of Green Mark labeling of green products at their retail venues (including stores, sales points and delivery warehouses, and e-commerce platforms), as well as the Green Mark labeling of kiln-fired resource-based building materials of the ceramic tile product category. A total of 1,437 products were subjected to such inspections and no incidents were found of any misuse of the Green Mark eco-label. Regarding the routine operations part of this project, the verification of 8 products non-compliances from 7 companies had been completed. It was confirmed that 5 products from 4 companies had indeed incorrectly used the Green Mark ecolabel, and that they had taken the corrective actions within the specified time period. In addition, the Green Mark implementation organization is continuing to trial use the surveillance and follow-up system, and reported to the system developing company the deficiencies of the system, in order to help with the software system refinement efforts. Moreover, the implementation organization had conducted joint product sampling activities for biodegradable plastic products on 9 companies with the TEPA, and facilitated many potential applicants in applying for the use of Green Mark ecolabel.

Keyword

Green Mark, Follow-up/surveillance and verification, sampling and testing