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What is the Safer Product Labeling Program?
The Design for the Environment Safer Product Labeling Program advances EPA's mission to protect human health and the environment. The program uses EPA's chemical expertise and resources to carefully evaluate products and to label only those that have met the program's highly protective standards. By allowing use of the logo on products, EPA empowers consumers and commercial purchasers to select safer chemical products that do not sacrifice quality or performance —and are safer for people and the planet. Design for the Environment labels a variety of chemical-based products, like all-purpose cleaners, laundry detergents, and carpet and floor care products. Look for the Design for the Environment logo when you shop or procure products and join this national effort to protect human and environmental health.
For Consumers
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When you see the DfE logo on a product it means that the DfE scientific review team has screened each ingredient for potential human health and environmental effects and thatbased on the best currently available information, EPA predictive models, and expert judgmentthe product contains only those ingredients that pose the least concern among chemicals in their class.
For Product Manufacturers
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The Design for the Environment label is recognized by retailers as a mark of environmental preferability. To consumers, the mark means that products are better for health and the environment.
- How to Partner, Get the DfE Label
- DfE Standard for Safer Cleaning Products (PDF) (31 pp., 177 K, about PDF )
- Partnership Agreement (PDF) (10 pp., 44 K, about PDF )
- DfE Criteria for Safer Chemical Ingredients
-
CleanGredients®
(database of safer ingredients)
For Industrial and Institutional Purchasers
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Design for the Environment has approved more than 1,000 industrial and institutional products.