ChemFORWARD and SPC offer plastic producers free access to chemical additive safety tool 

ChemFORWARD and SPC offer plastic producers free access to chemical additive safety tool 

ChemFORWARD and SPC offer plastic producers free access to chemical additive safety tool

A tool to help plastics manufacturers identify safer additives is being made freely accessible to help accelerate the development of safer single use plastics and other recyclable materials.

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Apple, Google, and ChemFORWARD join forces to drive support for safer flame retardants in the Electronics Sector

Apple, Google, and ChemFORWARD join forces to drive support for safer flame retardants in the Electronics Sector

Apple, Google, and ChemFORWARD join forces to drive support for safer flame retardants in the Electronics Sector

ChemFORWARD, in collaboration with Apple and Google, is pleased to announce the availability of a comprehensive set of chemical hazard assessments for phosphorus-based and other non-halogenated flame retardants used in electronics. The goal of this work is to help companies move away from flame retardants with known health and environmental concerns towards those that are well characterized and verified to be safer.

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ChemFORWARD’s Lauren Heine & Chris Bartlett to Present at the SOT 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo

ChemFORWARD’s Lauren Heine & Chris Bartlett to Present at the SOT 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo

Lauren Heine, Ph. D., ChemFORWARD Co-Founder and Director of Science and Data Integrity, and Chris Bartlett, Ph.D, ChemFORWARD Lead Toxicologist, will be presenting at the Society of Toxicology 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo on Sunday, March 27th in San Diego, California.

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MEET THE COMPANIES LEADING A “START SAFER” REVOLUTION

MEET THE COMPANIES LEADING A “START SAFER” REVOLUTION

When ChemFORWARD began in 2018 they knew one of the most pivotal moments would be transitioning their work from assessing single chemicals to assessing trade name materials. After all, if they wanted to transform the supply chain with safer chemistry, they would need to make it easy for formulators to find verified safer alternatives and easy for raw material suppliers to assess and verify their safer offerings. While it took three years and an unprecedented supply chain collaboration, that moment is here.

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INTRODUCING SAFER™ BY CHEMFORWARD
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INTRODUCING SAFER™ BY CHEMFORWARD

ChemFORWARD, a leader in creating broad access to chemical hazard data and safer alternatives, announced today the introduction of an exciting new program for raw material suppliers. ChemFORWARD’s SAFERTM program will verify their safer alternatives and amplify them as safer by trade name through leading B2B marketplaces. The program was co-designed with suppliers and retailers over the last two years to fill a critical gap in safety data.

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ChemFORWARD Introduces Ingredient Intelligence Reports to Benchmark and Track Progress Toward Safer Chemistry

ChemFORWARD Introduces Ingredient Intelligence Reports to Benchmark and Track Progress Toward Safer Chemistry

ChemFORWARD's trusted, globally harmonized chemical hazard repository is helping brands, retailers, and investors gain new insights into what is known - and not known - about chemicals in their portfolios. It also provides a benchmark and clear actions for positive chemical management.

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Nike Sponsored Portfolio Offers Alternatives to DMF, Facilitating Safer Textile Production
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Nike Sponsored Portfolio Offers Alternatives to DMF, Facilitating Safer Textile Production

ChemFORWARD is pleased to announce the launch of a portfolio of safer alternatives to dimethylformamide. Clothing and shoe manufacturers including Nike have been eager for a less toxic replacement to the inexpensive, abundant and effective chemical, which has been used for decades to produce synthetic leather. ChemFORWARD has assembled complete chemical hazard assessments for 10 solvents that can be used instead of DMF.

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Apple and ChemFORWARD Collaboration Offers Affordable, Verified Data on Safer Cleaners to Protect Worker Health
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Apple and ChemFORWARD Collaboration Offers Affordable, Verified Data on Safer Cleaners to Protect Worker Health

ChemFORWARD and Apple are collaborating to develop criteria for cleaning products based on the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals and leverage our existing platform to support the sharing of high-quality, actionable chemical hazard data via our globally harmonized repository.

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ChemFORWARD and GreenScreen Offer Aligned Outputs for Hazard Data: ToxServices
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ChemFORWARD and GreenScreen Offer Aligned Outputs for Hazard Data: ToxServices

ChemFORWARD’s method of assessing chemical hazards and safer alternatives and GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals’ framework offer highly aligned and equivalent outputs. That’s according to a detailed comparison of results from applying the two methods that ToxServices’ Jennifer Tanir presented at the 2021 Society of Toxicology’s Annual Meeting last month.

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In Conversation with Boma-Brown West: Pursuing a Unified Definition of Clean Beauty
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In Conversation with Boma-Brown West: Pursuing a Unified Definition of Clean Beauty

“Clean” has grown to dominate the growth in the beauty sector, with prestige beauty brands claiming to be clean surging 39 percent in 2019 and doubling their share of high-end skincare sales in the last four years.

ChemFORWARD Executive Director Stacy Glass sat down to talk with Boma Brown-West, director of consumer health at Environmental Defense Fund. Brown-West is an engineer who works at the intersection of science, policy and corporate leadership to drive safer products in the retail marketplace. Glass leads a nongovernmental organization working to provide a shared database of chemical hazards and safer alternatives, allowing companies to use better information to make safer products.

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EDF’s Clean Beauty Roadmap Offers Long-Needed Guide to Credible Claims of Safe Products
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EDF’s Clean Beauty Roadmap Offers Long-Needed Guide to Credible Claims of Safe Products

This roadmap is a clear framework for companies making clean beauty claims to restore and build confidence in their products. It equips them to move beyond the practice of claiming to be “free of” a group of hazards or restricted substances -- no matter how extensive -- and instead offer the credible assurance that ingredients have been thoroughly and credibly assessed and found to be free of hazards.

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