EPA Announces New Tool to Promote Safer Chemicals and Products

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EPA Announces New Tool to Promote Safer Chemicals and

Products

Release date: 11/30/2010

Contact Information: Dale Kemery (News Media Only)

kemery.dale@... 202-564-7839 202-564-4355

WASHINGTON - As part of Administrator P. ´s

commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management,

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced

new criteria to help companies and other groups, such as states

and environmental organizations, identify safer chemicals. As

part of the agency´s Design for the Environment (DfE) program,

EPA unveiled the new criteria which are an important tool under

its DfE Alternatives Assessments for identifying safer alternatives

to chemicals that pose a concern to human health and the

environment.

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Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC