Committed to accelerating chemical transparency across supply chains to consumers, a coalition of over 100 businesses, governments, health care organizations, investors, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have come together and endorsed the Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure. The six Principles were designed by a multi-stakeholder coalition over the last 18 months to frame the necessary steps for increasing access to information about chemicals in products and their hazards:
- Disclose all intentionally added chemical ingredients.*
- Disclose nonfunctional constituents (i.e., incidental components, breakdown products, and byproducts) that are identified on specified lists of chemicals of concern. This is a general principle to which Signatories agree, though they may hold differing positions on the thresholds for disclosure.
- Proactively engage supply chains and interested stakeholders to increase full chemical ingredient information disclosure. Manufacturers and retailers need reliable documentation to trace chemical information along supply chains.
- Advocate for filling data gaps to characterize the hazards of chemicals.
- Make accurate chemical ingredient information easily accessible to consumers, government agencies, manufacturers, brands, retailers, and others in the supply chain.
- Support public policies and industry standards that advance the above Principles.
*Endorsing organizations recognize the need to protect confidential business information (CBI) in limited situations when protection of the information is justified and substantiated. However, chemicals of concern, i.e., substances that are known or suspected hazards to human health or the environment, are not confidential business information.
Endorsers of the Principles seek to use these Principles to:
- Drive avoidance of chemicals of concern;
- Build trust among users and producers;
- Use chemicals with the most comprehensive chemical hazard profiles; and
- Work to reduce hazardous chemicals and their uses in products, across supply chains, and throughout product lifecycles.
See Principles in their entirety as well as the complete list of endorsing organizations. More information on the Principles, including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
We encourage organizations to endorse the Principles and look forward to the next 100 endorsers.
More information here: https://www.bizngo.org/public-policies/principles-for-chemical-ingredient-disclosure