GS-5 Green Seal Standard for Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)

Green Seal, Inc. Washington, DC USA. Edition 3.1, July 12, 2013. 12 p. Green Seal is a non-profit organization whose mission is to use science-based programs to empower consumers, purchasers, and companies to create a more sustainable world. Green Seal sets leadership standards that aim to reduce, to the extent technologically and economically feasible, the environmental, health, and social impacts throughout the life-cycle of products, services, and companies. The standards may be used for conformity assessment and public education.
This Standard establishes requirements for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and lamp systems. This includes those lamps used for general illumination purposes, and can include those for some special purposes such as germicidal and bug lamps. The product group includes those with both screw based and pin based lamps and those with integral (e.g. self-ballasted) and non-integral ballasts (e.g. ballast adapters).