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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 10:44 AM
Subject: [DCHAS-L] EPA to Expand Listing on the DfE Safer Chemical
Ingredients List
Subject:
EPA to Expand Listing on the DfE Safer Chemical Ingredients List
Date: Thu, 4
Dec 2014 15:49:41 -0600
From: oppt.epa**At_Symbol_Here**public.govdelivery.com
The EPA
Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) is announcing an
initiative to expand the Design for the Environment (DfE) Safer Chemical
Ingredients List (SCIL) with chemicals in new and existing functional component
classes. We are inviting chemical manufacturers to submit information on
their safer chemicals to EPA for review and listing on the SCIL. Adding more
chemicals to the SCIL should foster innovation and growth in safer products,
increase markets for business, and help protect people and the environment.
The SCIL contains chemicals that meet DfE's rigorous safer chemical
criteria and are eligible for use in the DfE Safer Product Labelling program. To
date, SCIL-listed chemicals have been primarily used in cleaning and detergent
products. The SCIL currently contains chemicals from the ingredient classes
typically found in cleaners and detergents (surfactants, solvents, chelants,
colorants, etc.). Numbering over 650 discrete substances, SCIL chemicals
have played an important role in enhancing the transparency of and increasing
participation in the Safer Product Labeling Program. Product manufacturers
and many others use the SCIL as they develop or enhance formulations to earn the
DfE Safer Product Label, qualify for retailer sustainability programs, meet
company innovation goals, or learn more about the ingredients used to make safer
products. Retailers have used the Safer Product Label to qualify products for
their sustainability programs.
Today's announcement opens the door for
the expansion of safer chemicals and functional-use classes on the SCIL.
EPA has posted a "Steps to SCIL Listing" document on the web (at
www.epa.gov/dfe/howtoscil) to guide chemical manufacturers through the
process. The Agency is asking manufacturers with candidate chemicals to
work with a DfE-qualified third party to prepare a profile on the chemical,
based on the program's safer chemical criteria. EPA will use the profile
and Agency criteria and expertise to make the listing decision. The
presence of safer chemicals in new component classes, and with new
functionalities, on SCIL will create opportunities to label and promote new
types of safer products, potentially bringing the benefits of the Safer Product
Label to new markets and populations of workers and
consumers.