Supply Chain Transparency

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:

Clean Production Action (CPA) and the Northeast Waste  Management Officials’ Association’s (NEWMOA) Interstate  Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2) have launched a partnership to find common ground among key stakeholders on chemical ingredient transparency policies and programs. 

This report provides context and summary information to help inform this initiative. 

The  Review: 

Change Chemistry (formerly GC3) member retailers are working to implement chemicals policies and strategies that require information about chemicals in articles to enable informed decision making about the products they source and sell. Change Chemistry member suppliers recognize the need for sharing this information with their business customers but are understandably concerned about data security and the level of effort required to supply these data.