07.20.16
Cleaning product ingredients have come a long way over the years, according to new data compiled by scientists at the American Cleaning Institute. Working with its member companies, ACI produced comprehensive critical reviews of human and environmental safety data of major surfactants over the past 35 years, and in the course of doing so generated data and assessed the safety of high-volume anionic and nonionic surfactants used in formulated products around the world.
The SETAC Global article was authored by ACI scientists Kathleen Stanton, Paul DeLeo, Darci Ferrer, Francis Kruszewski and Richard Sedlak.
ACI’s initiatives on surfactants and other ingredients have supported safety assessments utilizing structured approaches for assessing the safety of cleaning product chemicals, most recently compiled in the ACI publication Consumer Product Ingredient Safety: Exposure and Risk Screening Methods for Consumer Product Ingredients.
The article also takes note of historical work done when ACI was known as The Soap and Detergent Association, including a series of technical papers in the 1960s on “synthetic detergents,” which were gaining popularity at the time.
The SETAC Global article was authored by ACI scientists Kathleen Stanton, Paul DeLeo, Darci Ferrer, Francis Kruszewski and Richard Sedlak.
ACI’s initiatives on surfactants and other ingredients have supported safety assessments utilizing structured approaches for assessing the safety of cleaning product chemicals, most recently compiled in the ACI publication Consumer Product Ingredient Safety: Exposure and Risk Screening Methods for Consumer Product Ingredients.
The article also takes note of historical work done when ACI was known as The Soap and Detergent Association, including a series of technical papers in the 1960s on “synthetic detergents,” which were gaining popularity at the time.