ChemFORWARD and Apple are collaborating to develop criteria for cleaning products based on the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals and leverage our existing platform to support the sharing of high-quality, actionable chemical hazard data via our globally harmonized repository.

ChemFORWARD applauds Toxic Free Future’s fifth Retailer Report Card, highlighting the great work by leaders in safer chemistry including the report card’s two A+ grades, earned by ChemFORWARD Co-design Partners Apple Inc., and Target Corp., along with Sephora, with an A grade representing the list’s biggest improvement over time.

From plastic to paint, from the most personal look at chemicals and health to one woman’s efforts to protect a state’s children, 2020 was full of meaningful and admirable work in the realm of safer chemistry and ingredient transparency. Here is a small list of some of the work that impressed and inspired us from the past 12 months.

"The work that ChemFORWARD is doing and proposes to do will provide important additional information to a community of organizations seeking real-world data to better understand the safety implications of their materials choices," said green chemistry trailblazer John C. Warner, a distinguished research fellow at synthetic biology startup Zymergen.

Iconic sneaker and apparel producer Nike has released an open-source circular design guide, created to give its fashion-industry peers a common language for sustainable design. The guide highlights ChemFORWARD as a source for hazard data and safer alternatives that unlock the economic potential of the circular economy.

Google and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation have released a new paper discussing the role of safer chemistry and better materials selection in the circular economy. The paper identifies MaterialWise a precursor to ChemFORWARD as a leader in providing the transparent, verified, and affordable data manufacturers need to make products suited for the circular economy.