transparency

Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure

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:

CHEMICAL INGREDIENT TRANSPARENCY IN PRODUCTS: Review of Existing Public Policies & An Industry Standard

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:

DEFINITION AND CRITERIA FOR Sustainable Chemistry Created by the Expert Committee on Sustainable Chemistry (ECOSChem)

Many organizations have worked to define and describe sustainable chemistry or have developed principles for safety and sustainability for chemistry applications, including environmental justice principles centered around chemicals management.

Skin Deep

Your guide to safer personal care products. Backed by science. Designed for you. Learn what’s really in your personal care products.

Tool Owner

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Your guide to safer personal care products. Backed by science. Designed for you. Learn what’s really in your personal care products.

Skin Deep® product and ingredient databases

We compare the ingredients on personal care product labels and websites to the information in nearly 60 toxicity and regulatory databases. Then we give every product and ingredient in the database a two-part score – one for hazard and one for data availability.

Process Chemicals Data Collection (PCDC) Tool

Tool Owner

Clean Electronics Production Network

The Process Chemicals Data Collection (PCDC) Tool is a free and publicly available standardized reporting tool that improves the task of collecting and managing process chemicals data. Specifically, the PCDC Tool: