If you can’t trust your toaster, who can you trust?

Underwriters Laboratories launches eco-branch 2

You’ve seen it on your toaster, probably, and on your hair dryer too: The little circle with “UL” inside. That means the good folks at Underwriters Laboratories have certified that the product meets health and safety regulations. And now UL is launching an arm called UL Environment that will verify green claims. This is the equivalent of, say, Julia Child offering to taste test your meatloaf: good news. Well, better news if she were still alive. But you see what I’m getting at.

Katharine Wroth is a senior editor at Grist.

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  1. oceanrev's avatar

    oceanrev Posted 3:18 am
    26 Jan 2009

    safetymaybe some day "safety" will include the environment

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  2. archigeek Posted 11:16 pm
    26 Jan 2009

    UL...The one purely good idea that the insurance companies produced.

    The mellotron is your friend.

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