Design for the Environment Logo for Pesticide Products
EPA established the Design for the Environment (DfE) logo for pesticide products to help consumers find products that have been reviewed by EPA and found to meet the DfE standards. DfE allows qualifying antimicrobial and biopesticide products to carry a logo on their pesticide labels that indicates the product meets certain criteria. Products are evaluated on a case by case basis.
The DfE logo requires that products and inert ingredients be reviewed against the Safer Choice standard.
Currently, two classes of pesticides have procedures in place to be evaluated for the DfE logo: