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Facing risks from toxic toys to questions about nanomaterials, smart companies have begun to take dramatic steps forward in disclosing potentially toxic ingredients to investors, customers and policymakers alike.
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At first glance it seems an impossible task to take on the hundreds or thousands of chemicals in your company's supply chain, but a number of companies have developed useful approaches to measuring and lowering their use of hazardous chemicals.
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Nanomaterials are an industrial revolution in a microcosm with the potential to yield extraordinary health, environmental and other global social benefits. But they're substantially unregulated, underassessed for their impact on health and the environment.<br />
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The noose continues to tighten around toxic chemicals in products and corporate supply chains. Notwithstanding the protestations of some trade associations about their products' safety, it's becoming increasingly clear that if your company has a high profile chemical in your product or your supply chain, the likelihood of your suffering toxic lockout from the marketplace and having your supply chain disrupted is increasing rapidly, writes Richard Liroff.
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It's a myth that reducing pesticide use has to mean higher costs and fewer choices. Leading companies have been systematically reducing pesticide use, thereby cutting costs while also lowering hazards to farm families and workers, local communities and the environment. Smart companies that want their supply chains to be more sustainable can profit from learning what industry leaders already know about living with fewer pesticides.
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The satirical newspaper The Onion recently reported the FDA has approved salmonella and included a mock quote declaring salmonella 'not nearly as destructive or fatal as you'd think.' The piece tapped into the growing public sense that government health and safety agencies have been compromised by anti-science, anti-regulatory interests and cannot be trusted. Coincidentally, the Onion's faux article appeared same day some true high-profile stories about product safety made the news.
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That’s Chemical Policy Reform -- a long overdue, systematic and fundamental overhaul of the basic approach the U.S. federal government takes to managing hazards from chemicals in products. Richard Liroff writes on how to position your company to handle the changes.
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Companies are facing accelerating pressures to adopt safer chemicals principles and practices and to cajole, encourage, or force their supply chains to join them. The demands stem both from governments and from leadership companies in the private sector. Corporate strategic planners had better pay attention, lest they get shut out of markets, says Rich Liroff.