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Lauren Heine, Ph.D.Director of Applied Science

Tarek Rached Database Engineer and UVA Systems Engineering MS Candidate

Green Blue Institute (GreenBlue)Charlottesville, VA

www.cleangredients.org

Sustainable Business and Safer Chemistry Through the Supply Chain: An Innovator’s Roundtable

Darden Graduate School of BusinessNovember 14-16, 2005

The DfE Green Formulation Initiative and CleanGredients™

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Purpose of the DfE GFI

Develop a one-stop database (CleanGredients™) of Industrial & Institutional (I&I) cleaning ingredients and their characteristics* to: help formulators identify ingredients that may be useful for

green product formulations provide opportunity for manufacturers and producers of

cleaning ingredients to showcase their ingredients with environmental and/or human health and safety attributes.

Our intention is to promote the development and marketing of innovative, green chemical solutions in the I&I cleaning product industry and to facilitate informed choice.

We intend to make the resource accessible to formulators at no cost and to suppliers at low to no cost.

*By characteristics we mean functional properties such as critical micelle concentration, physical properties such as log Kow and associated environmental and health toxicological information .

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Communication in the DfE Green Formulation Partnership

(The Old Way)

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Communication in the DfE Green Formulation Partnership

(The New Way)

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General Product Information Categories

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Select and Prioritize Human and Environmental Health Attributes

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Demo

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We Hope this Project Will • Help Inform a Larger Audience• Provide a Showcase for Chemical Ingredients with environmental

benefits (Green Chemistry)• Provide a fact-based source of relevant environmental fate and

toxicity information on potential cleaning product ingredients• Allow formulators a one-stop opportunity to select ingredients that

will enhance the environmental fate and safety of their formulas• Provide a resource for ingredient producers to communicate the

environmental fate and safety of ingredients in a standardized input format for current and future ingredients

• Promote an ethic of continuous improvement • Leverage U.S. EPA Formulator Program services. Streamline

Partnership by having information on ingredients already reviewed and publicly available.

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Engaging Stakeholders