GreenScreen Certified for Cleaners and Degreasers

Chemical suppliers interested in getting products certified can contact certifications@cleanproduction.org.

Clean Production Action will soon be releasing the GreenScreen Certified™ Standard for Cleaners and Degreasers used in Manufacturing to promote the use of safer process chemicals in the global electronics supply chain. The Standard was developed with leaders in the field and is a third- party certification. As with all GreenScreen Certified Standards, it is based on GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals, a global leader in chemical hazard assessment that benchmarks progress to safer chemicals. 

The GreenScreen Certified Standard for Cleaners and Degreasers used in Manufacturing provides a pathway of continuous improvement through Silver, Gold and Platinum levels of certification, with Platinum being the most stringent leadership criteria.   CPA anticipates the release of the Standard in 2021.  

Scivera Safer Chemistry —Electronics Cleaners and Degreasers

Chemical suppliers or users of cleaning/degreasing chemicals interested in finding out more about Scivera Safer Chemistry product achievement and certification can contact info@scivera.com.

SciveraLENS® is a web-based software platform that enables screening, scoring, and certification of electronic cleaning and degreasing chemicals for the electronics supply chain.

Subscribers to SciveraLENS® gain access to Scivera toxicologists and over 4,000 Verified Chemical Hazard Assessments for insight on sustainable chemistry and safer alternative ingredients for restricted substances or other chemicals of concern. SciveraLENS® currently provides safer / sustainable chemistry achievement for products categories including toys, apparel, footwear, cosmetics, among others and will soon include an electronics cleaners and degreasers category.

TCO Certified Accepted Substance List - Process Chemicals

For information on adding chemicals to the TCO Certified Accepted Substance List for process chemicals, contact Stephen Fuller, Senior criteria manager at TCO Development.

TCO Development has added process chemicals used as cleaning solvents to TCO Certified Accepted Substance list. The list covering process chemicals presently includes cleaning ingredients independently assessed by licensed GreenScreen profilers. TCO Development also accepts cleaning products that have been independently assessed to GreenScreen Certified™ to be added to the list.

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry®

For more information on ToxFMD Screened Chemistry® services, contact Kristi Benoy, ToxFMD Program Manager kbenoy@toxservices.com.

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry® evaluates chemical formulations in multiple product sectors, allowing brands and their suppliers to easily identify safer alternatives.  A ToxFMD® assessment (which stands for full materials disclosure) includes a comprehensive hazard evaluation of chemicals in a formulation.  Cleaning product formulations are also assessed for compliance with region-specific VOC standards, such Chinese VOC standards for cleaning agents.

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry® was created in 2014 to serve the textile and apparel industries and expanded in 2020 to assess cleaning products in the electronics sector. 

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