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cultural practices, and use of resistant varieties. Pesticides are used only after monitoring indicates they are needed according to established guidelines, and treatments are made with the goal of removing only the target organism. Pest control materials are selected and applied in a manner that minimizes risks to human health, beneficial and nontarget organisms, and the environment. 10.20 "LEED Rating System" means the most recent version of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System, approved by the U.S. Green Building Council, and designed for rating new and existing commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. 10.21 "NSF/ANSI" means NSF International follows the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards development process. Standards are developed by joint committees (balanced stakeholder groups of public health, industry and user representatives). 10.22 "Organic Pest Management" prohibits the use and application of toxic chemical pesticides and strives to prevent pest problems through the application of natural, organic horticultural and maintenance practices. All pest control products shall be in keeping with, but not limited to, those products on the approved list of California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). 10.23 "Post -consumer Material" means a finished material which would normally be disposed of as a solid waste, having reached its intended end-use and completed its life cycle as a consumer item, and does not include manufacturing or converting wastes. 10.24 "Pre -consumer Material" means material or by-products generated after manufacture of a product is completed but before the product reaches the end- use consumer. Pre -consumer material does not include mill and manufacturing trim, scrap, or broke which is generated at a manufacturing site and commonly reused on-site in the same or another manufacturing process. 10.25 "Recovered Material" means fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes pre -consumer and post -consumer material but does not include excess resources of the manufacturing process. 10.26 "Recycled Content" means the percentage of recovered material, including pre -consumer and post -consumer materials, in a product. 10.27 "Recycled Content Standard" means the minimum level of recovered material and/or post -consumer material necessary for products to qualify as "recycled products." 10.28 "Recycled Product" means a product that meets the City's recycled content policy objectives for post -consumer and recovered material. 14of17IPage