Evaluating the chemicals in your products comparing and contrasting leading tools

1. Tony Kingsbury TKingsbury Consulting
@kingsburytony
Ann Mason American Chemistry Council
@amchemistry
Tim Greiner Pure Strategies
@PureStrategies
#SB15sd
Evaluating the Chemicals in
Your Products: Comparing and
Contrasting Leading Tools

2. SB’15 Tutorial
Evaluating the Chemicals in Your
Products: Comparing and
Contrasting Leading Tools
TONY KINGSBURY
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT,
TONY@TKINGSBURY.COM

3. Evaluating the Chemicals in Your Products:
Comparing and Contrasting Leading Tools
There are a number of tools available and used to evaluate the safety
of chemicals and materials used in consumer products. Some of the tools look
at authoritative lists to determine whether a chemical is appropriate for use
in a given product, others assess the hazard profile of the chemical or material
and some go a step further to evaluate exposure to a chemical or
materials and potential risk to people or the environment. During this session,
we will investigate a host of tools commonly used by large retailers and
brands, including but not limited to US EPA’s DfE, GreenScreen, GreenSuite,
GreenWERCS, SciVera, and GoodGuide. Participants in this workshop will walk
away with a deeper understanding of the suite of available tools; their scope;
and the type of questions they should be asking of their tool suppliers moving
forward to help manage chemicals and risk. In addition to chemical hazard,
exposure and risk capabilities, participants will better understand software
usability, integration with other business systems, and other factors to
consider when deciding what framework or software solution best meet a
company's needs. The session will include case studies of the results these
tools generate when evaluating chemicals commonly used is consumer
products. Reports prepared by the authors on this subject will be available at
the session.

4. Tutorial Agenda (9-noon)
9am Introductions & Meet the Speakers
9:15 Discussion - What Are We Looking for in Chemical Evaluation Tools?
9:30 Tools Report Reviews
◦ 32 Chemical Evaluation Tools Review – Kingsbury
◦ Sustainable Chemicals Management Software Review – Greiner
10:40 Break
11:10 Tools Report Reviews Cont.
◦ 7 Chemical Hazard Screening Comparison & Exposure Feasibility Pilots – Mason
11:45 What Are We Looking for in Chemical Evaluation Tools?...
revisited… what’s important and how can we all work to improve all tools?

5. Target Stores Recent Announcement
50 % of a products score comes from a “list based” chemical hazard
scheme administered by GoodGuide using the PurView ‘tool’
Another 20% comes from chemical ingredient transparency

6. Walmart – Announces Chemicals Policy
Walmart, articulates its Chemicals Policy in a move to
improve the sustainability of the products it sells. Program
administered by the WERCs (a UL company) and their “tool”

7. Speaker Background - Tony Kingsbury
Current: Chemicals & Plastics Sustainability, Consulting Practice
5 years: Executive-in-Residence @ UC Berkeley, taught graduate level
sustainability classes & ran multidisciplinary sustainability center
(Business, Engineering, Chemistry, Natural Resources, Public Health, etc.)
~ 30 years Dow Chemical: Experience
◦ Production Engineer
◦ Product Development
◦ Public Policy … Wash DC, Brussels, Beijing, etc.
◦ Environmental Affairs
◦ Sustainable Plastics & Chemistry
◦ Global Sustainability
◦ Value Chain Sustainability Engagement Lead… Walmart
◦ Corporate Sustainability Goal Owner: Breakthroughs to World Challenges

8. Speaker Background – Tim Greiner
Current: Co-Founder & Managing Director, Pure Strategies, Inc.
Pure Strategies Co-founder and Managing Director, has pioneered approaches to
building environmental and social integrity into products, brands, and businesses. His
experience spans the spectrum from developing corporate strategy for
multinationals, designing product sustainability programs, creating strategies to
transform supply chains and fostering collaborative mechanisms to lift the
sustainability performance of entire industries.
Experience
◦ Degrees in Environmental Policy and Business (MIT) and Materials Science (RPI)
◦ Founding member of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Planners Assoc.
◦ Founder of the Cape Ann Climate Change Network
◦ Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
◦ Process Engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor
◦ Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance as Project Dir. & Chief Engineer.

9. Speaker Background – Ann Mason
Current: Senior Director, American Chemistry Council
Where she works on value chain opportunities related hazard and exposure
tools, technical outreach to various consensus group (including the USGBC
Supply Chain Optimization WG) and manages a chemical product group.
~ 40 years experience
◦ Science, Health & Environmental Protection
◦ Chemicals Management
◦ Educational & Professional Training in Biology, Chemistry & International Policy
◦ Standards Development
◦ Consensus Dialogues
◦ Program management
◦ Regulatory & Legislative Advocacy
◦ Policy Formulation & Analysis
◦ Networking & Coalition Building
◦ Research, Etc.

10. Evaluation of 32
decision-support tools
used to screen and
prioritize chemicals
PUBLISHED IN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT
ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT
NOVEMBER 6, 2014

11. TOOLS

12. Tools Evaluated
List of Tools (see right)
◦ From various industry sectors, for profit
companies, government, academia, non-
profits and NGOs
◦ Some linked to certification
Evaluated the tools based on a variety of
questions regarding the development,
function, and application of the tool
◦ # of hazard endpoints?
◦ Transparency?
◦ Cost?
◦ Structure of the managing organization?
Focused on hazard and exposure assessment
components
ACC Prioritization Tool
BOMcheck
CHAMP
ChemHAT
Chemical Assessment and Ranking System (CARS)
Chemical Data Access Tool
CleanGredients®
Comp Tox
COSHH
Cradle-to-Cradle®
Design for the Environment (Safer Choice)
DuPont’s Chemical Screening Visualization Tool
EcoLogo™
EPEAT
Goodguide
GreenGlobes
GreenGuard
Greenlist™
GreenScreen ™
GreenSeal™
GreenSuite®
GreenWercs™
Healthy Building Network/Pharos
iSUSTAIN™ Green Chemistry Index Tool
Living Building Challenge
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production AA Framework
NSF ACS-GCI Standard 355 Report
RISKOFDERM
Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI)
Stoffenmanager
Substitute it Now (SIN)
Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

13. TOOLS INACTIVE… CHAMP & CARS

14. CHARACTERIZATION CATEGORIES

15. Characterization Categories
Because the tools varied widely with respect to
their intended uses and purpose… we segmented
them into 5 categories:
1. Screening & Prioritization
2. Database
3. Hazard Assessment
4. Exposure & Risk Assessment
5. Certification & Labeling

16. Categories of Tools and Frameworks
Screening and Prioritization: Tools and Frameworks that were specifically
created for assisting in prioritization decisions. These will generally have an
output that allows for comparison across chemicals with similar
functionalities. According to our analysis, the following tools were identified
as having screening and/or prioritization capabilities of single chemicals.
Database: A web-based tool (typically) that allows for querying of a product
or chemical. This applies to any tool that has a collection of information,
whether it is a regulatory lists or MSDS. Tools containing databases were
included in this category.
Hazard Assessment: Any tool that can generate output related to the
potential health hazard of a chemical or product. This hazard output may also
be part of a certification or standards compliance process. Tools with hazard
assessment capabilities comprised the majority of the programs we evaluated.

17. Categories of Tools and Frameworks Continued
Exposure and Risk Assessment: Any tool capable of quantifying the
expected exposure of an individual based on chemical or product-specific
information. These tools are strict risk assessment tools in the traditional
sense. They have the capacity to predict risk based on a combination of
hazard and exposure data (modeled or collected).
Certification and Labeling: Eco-labels and the supporting certification
programs in the traditional sense. These tools provide a positive outcome
for the user. The labels signify that the chemical or product comply with
certain criteria.

18. CRITERIA SCORING POTENTIAL

19. Ranking / Evaluation Methodology
Results repeatable
Can be applied to other tools *
Scoring
◦ Total of 100 possible points across 12 scoring criteria
Hazard endpoints based on NSF/ANSI 355 sustainability
reporting standard
Average combined score was 50 out of 100
* Highest combined score was 77… since the original study,
SciVera Lens exceeded this score

20. Scoring Criteria... 100 pts total
√Hazard or Hazard & Exposure
√Hazard Endpoints Considered (15) + Plus Bonus pts
√List based verses Criteria based (more pts for going beyond lists)
√Data Gap Provisions
√Chemicals Available for Assessment
√Review Process
√Transparency
√Ease of Use
√Accessibility / Cost
√Exposure Parameters included
√Rubustness of Exposure Parameters

21. Results
 Only 4 tools received the maximum score of 10
for assessing both Hazard and Exposure
 21 tools utilized a criteria based assessment (9
used lists)
 Clear opportunity exists to add or improve the
exposure portion of most hazard tools
 Other areas for improvement existed in how
most tools deal with:
◦ Data gaps
◦ Review Process

22. Results Continued
 High Ranking Screening & Prioritization Tools:
 Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)
 Stoffenmanager
 Lowell Center (LCSP) AA Framework
 GreenSuite

23. Results Continued
 High Ranking Hazard Assessment Tools
User-Modifiable
GreenWERCS
GreenSuite
Fixed Criteria
Design for the Environment (DfE)
GreenScreen
iSUSTAIN

24. Results Continued
 High Ranking Exposure & Risk Assessment Tools
RISKOFDERM
Stoffenmanager
Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

25. Results Continued
 High Ranking Databases
 GreenSuite
 RISKOFDERM
 High Ranking Certification & Labeling Tools
 Design for the Environment (DfE)… NOW “Safer Choice”

26. Results
Top 5 scoring tools overall:
1. Stoffenmanager (77)
2. TRA (73)
3. LCSP (70)
4 tie: GreenSuite (68.5)
tie: RISKOFDERM (68.5)
Note: Since this original study, SciVera Lens was also
evaluated and scored higher than any of these tools

27. Paper Available
Integrated Assessment and Environmental
Management (new SETAC journal)
Title: Chemical Assessment State of the Science:
Evaluation of 32 decision-support tools used to
screen and prioritize chemicals
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28. Thanks to my Co-authors
Alison Gauthier
Mai Fung
Julie Panko
Angela Perez
Kristen Hitchcock
Tyler Ferrancini
Jennifer Sahmel
Amber Banducci
Megan Jacobsen
Anders Ablemann
Erin Shay
10/29/2013
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Thanks to Cardno ChemRisk & ACC for funding the research

29. Thank You!
&
Questions
10/29/2013
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Tony Kingsbury
Chemicals & Plastics Sustainability Consulting
tony@tkingsbury.com

30. UP NEXT
Sustainable Chemicals
Management Software: A Pure
Strategies Review of tools for
managing chemicals in
products
TIM GREINER

31. What are We Looking for in a Chemical
Evaluation Tool?... revisited
What’s important and how can we all work
to improve all tools?
Important?
Improvements?