title: Businesses and advocacy groups create a road map for safer chemicals: the BizNGO Principles for Chemicals Policy.
abstract: This paper details how businesses and environmental organizations are collaborating to define and implement a visionary agenda for integrating safer chemicals into products, describing the challenges they confront and how they are overcoming those challenges. The framework for this assessment is the Principles for Chemicals Policy developed by the Business-NGO Working Group for Safer Chemicals and Sustainable Materials (BizNGO). The four principles--1) knowing and disclosing chemicals in products, 2) assessing and avoiding hazards, 3) committing to continuous improvement, and 4) supporting public policies and industry standards--while appearing to be straightforward, are, in fact, very complex to implement in practice. Together businesses and environmental organizations are charting a path to safer chemicals by sharing best practices, addressing technical aspects of safer chemicals substitution, and analyzing and supporting public policies that advance the rapid development and diffusion of greener chemicals in the economy.
authors: Clean Production Action, 122 Woburn Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA. mark@cleanproducton.org
authors: Mark S
authors: MS
authors: Rossi
authors: Beverley
authors: B
authors: Thorpe
authors: Cheri
authors: C
authors: Peele
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004782:Environmental Health; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009938:Organizations; D011050:Policy Making; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy; D012449:Safety / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances