“GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals is a method for comparative chemical hazard assessment. It is used by a wide range of professionals, governmental bodies, non-profits, businesses, formulators, and product developers, and anybody interested in assessing the inherent hazards of chemicals and their potential effect on human health and the environment.”

“Diseases of our modern age are increasingly linked to toxic chemicals in the environment. Chemicals are routinely used in consumer products and in the workplace where they escape into surrounding air, water and soil, posing direct exposure and risks and accumulating in the food chain. Humans and wildlife are now internally contaminated with hundreds of synthetic chemicals, many of which are known to be hazardous. As awareness grows, individuals and companies increasingly want to know how to identify and use safer chemicals. Clean Production Action developed Green- Screen®for Safer Chemicals as a publicly available and transparent chemical hazard screening method to help move our society quickly and effectively toward the use of greener and safer chemicals. GreenScreen allows users to evaluate chemicals based on their inherent hazards— for example, to determine if they are linked to cancer, toxic to fish, or are persistent in the environment—and to promote continuous improvement toward safer chemicals. GreenScreen pulls together all the best information on chemical hazards to identify chemicals of high concern and assess safer alternatives to better inform:

•procurement,

•product design and development,

•standards, and

•policies.”

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