CleanGredients® is an online database of institutional and industrial (I&I) cleaning ingredients — the online resource for green formulation®. CleanGredients® aligns broad environmental and human health goals with the cleaning product industry's business objectives and will support formulation of products with human and environmental health benefits, whether to meet corporate internal objectives, regulations, voluntary product recognition programs, or national and international eco-labels. CleanGredients® is designed to:
- help formulators identify ingredients that have potential environmental and human health and safety benefits, and
- provide opportunity for manufacturers and producers of cleaning ingredients to showcase their ingredients with potential environmental and human health and safety benefits.
At present, CleanGredients® comprises only surfactants for hard surface and carpet cleaning and laundry and hand dish soap. Modules for solvents and chelators/builders are now being developed, and additional ingredient classes such as fragrances and colorants will be added as the attributes and criteria are established. Surfactants listed in CleanGredients® are, at a minimum, ultimately biodegradable. Data for aquatic toxicity, biodegradability, and the ingredient formulations are reviewed by a third party (NSF International) using the DfE Screen for Surfactants, a set of criteria defined by the U.S. EPA Design for the Environment (DfE) program that designates surfactants with especially positive environmental characteristics. NSF's reviews are carried out under confidentiality, providing verification of claims for the key ingredient attributes for surfactants without compromising proprietary formulations.
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