The VeriFlora Certified Sustainably Grown label is one of the certification systems for flowers and potted plants that have been produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner and meet the highest standards for freshness and quality.

ILRF strongly believes that all certification system are a step in the right direction but that ultimately workers must have a say in their workplaces.

From the Clean Clothes Campaign website:

Four major steps companies can take to ensure their products are made under humane conditions.

A major supplier of compact fluorescent light bulbs to General Electric Co. requires many to work a 64-hour week that exhausts workers and violates Chinese labor law. Many workers at the plant in southern China, which is partly owned by GE, have no idea they are producing a product containing toxic mercury, and do not receive training on how to respond to its possible dangers. Those were among the findings of a study overseen by Policy Matters Ohio. The study, conducted in late 2007, found that Xiamen Topstar Lighting Co.

Women comprise the majority of the workforce in many non-traditional agricultural export (NTAE) industries, which international lending and aid agencies espouse as a development solution for rural poor people. In the Peruvian asparagus industry and the Colombian cut-flower plantations, however, women workers endure unsafe and substandard conditions.