你的公司在哪里走向更安全，更健康的产品？

行业团体，非营利组织，政府和大品牌正在优先考虑识别和消除关注的化学品，包括Target那Walmart，惠普和霍尔特帕克德U.S. Green Building Council。

他们的方法可能有所不同，但目标是相同的：逐步关注的化学品。现在，两种流行的化学评估工具的生产者正在合作，以改善评估过程，并加速更安全的产品的旅程。

在安全和健康产品的这种道路上的一些常见步骤包括限制物质清单，揭示化学成分并评估危险。

限制物质名单

Some organizations have established restricted substance lists of chemicals that they want to avoid. They ask suppliers to declare that the products they supply don't contain any chemicals included on these lists. It's one way to start, but this approach often leads to a perpetual revision process as unfortunate substitutions are made with chemicals that are not on the list but have the same or worse human and environmental health impacts. For consumers, a banned list only tells them what they are not getting. This approach may eliminate "known bads" to reduce immediate business and regulatory risk, but it does not help to prepare for the future.

披露化学成分

有一个推动 - 特别是在建筑行业 - 以更大的透明度和对产品中使用的所有成分的理解。这种方法呼吁制造商深入挖掘供应链，识别其产品中的所有化学成分，并将这些成分披露给客户。这一步骤并不像它看起来那么容易。供应链透明度有许多障碍，包括专有问题，多层供应商，报告不一致和缺乏知识。知道产品中的内容是消除关注化学品的第一个关键步骤。我们无法改变我们不知道的东西。但只知道产品中的内容并没有让它安全。成分的库存为客户提供了负担，以认识到他们应该避免的哪些化学品，并理解涉及的危险和风险。

危险评估

由培训的毒理学家和化学家评估一套综合终点的化学危害评估是确定产品成分的潜在人类和环境健康影响的最佳方法。制造商可以使用这些信息在产品设计和开发中做出明智的决策。

Conducting these assessments consistently and with integrity requires expertise and standardization.更安全化学品的绿色屏幕和摇篮到摇篮(C2C) Certified Product Standardoffer methodologies to review the entire inventory of product ingredients for safety to human and environmental health.

Chemical hazard assessments are increasingly being recognized as a foundational tool for applications that include risk assessment, alternatives assessment and product design and development. GreenScreen is a free, publicly available and scientifically robust method for chemical hazard assessments that is increasingly being adopted globally by companies, government organizations and standards bodies. In both GreenScreen and the C2C certification program, chemical hazard assessments can inform substitution by identifying safer alternatives to chemicals of concern. It supports product design and development by providing a scientifically robust and transparent way to evaluate and compare chemicals across a suite of hazard endpoints. It provides transparency about chemical hazards and data gaps, helping users to "know what they know, and to know what they don't know" about a chemical so they can reduce uncertainty and make informed decisions.

优化产品及其制造过程

TheC2C认证产品标准那co-founded by architect William McDonough, is a multi-attribute assessment of a product and its manufacturing process against criteria in five quality categories: material health, material reuse, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship and social fairness. The C2C material health assessment methodology relies on comprehensive chemical hazard assessments as its foundation. It also includes a material-specific evaluation that considers chemical hazards in the context of relevant exposure scenarios during manufacture, use and end-of-use phases and "cyclability," which ensures materials in products can continue to flow in managed cycles or be released to the environment.

Bringing sustainable products to scale

为了加快安全和健康的产品的道路，对所有行业的制造商都需要更简单，更快，更便宜。考虑到这一点，摇篮到摇篮产品创新研究所和格雷森在一起完成了对其化学危害评估方法之间的相似性和差异的深刻分析。该分析显示了在C2C认证标准中使用物质健康评估所需的Greencreen和化学危害评估信息，在化学危害评估所需的信息之间显示出显着重叠。虽然危险评估方法不相同，但很快就认识到，绿屏评估提供了在C2C材料健康评估过程中对化学危害评估进行化学危害评估所需的大部分核心信息。

为了帮助加速制造商选择更好的成分，摇篮到摇篮产品创新研究所发布的补充指导（PDF从摇篮到摇篮的认证材料愈合th Assessment Methodology, Version 3.0 in November. It includes recognition of GreenScreen profiles as quality information towards the C2C hazard assessment portion of the material health criteria. The supplemental guidance states GreenScreen assessments performed by a licensed GreenScreen Profiler may serve as data sources for completing hazard assessments. This will save time and money for C2C assessors and product manufacturers alike. If a manufacturer has conducted a GreenScreen assessment, it can more easily take further steps toward innovation and product optimization. This encourages progress toward full C2C materials assessment and product certification.

希望本识别有助于简化产品评估和优化，而不仅仅用于在LEED V4下的建筑材料，而且还可于所有制造商的建筑材料，也有助于所有想要从事安全性和可持续的重新使用循环的材料更好的产品的制造商。

第一个步骤代表了更广泛的承诺，进一步合作，将允许Greencreen和C2C认证继续努力协调。合作将使我们能够不断改进我们的化学危害评估方法，因此我们可以推进使用预测毒理学工具，并增加对数据和评估结果的访问，以加速更安全和更好的产品的路径。

Where is your company on this path?

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