CleanScreen is part of a suite of free tools that empowers the entire supply chain to prioritize worker health and the environment.

ChemFORWARD submits comments to ECHA’s call for evidence on alternatives to aromatic brominated flame retardants highlighting more than 35 potential safer functional alternatives.

ChemFORWARD Joins an NSF-Funded Project to Tackle "Forever Chemicals" with AI

Each year, ChemFORWARD analyzes data from dozens of brands, retailers, and suppliers to produce custom Ingredient Intelligence Reports (IIRs) and year over year, metrics from data on thousands of SKUs with hundreds of thousands of ingredients. These reports can now be used to achieve points on the 2024 Retailer Report Card.

We’re thrilled to announce a series of exciting updates to the ChemFORWARD chemical optimization platform, designed to simplify your experience and empower you to manage your chemical safety needs more efficiently.

ChemFORWARD, a science-based, non-profit organization, will manage the Chemical Hazard Data Trust to accelerate a science-based, data-driven transition to safe and sustainable product

Version 2 (v2) changes include a new D Hazard Band that enables organizations to identify chemicals of moderate to high hazard, including members of chemical classes of concern such as PFAS.

We proudly announce that Greg Hughes has joined ChemFORWARD as a Software Developer.

Hughes will play a pivotal part in the maintenance, enhancement, and development of our software applications. These applications are critical, facilitating access to and utilization of our comprehensive chemical hazard repository.

ChemFORWARD is pleased to share that Samsung has joined our Electronics Safer Chemistry Collaborative. Samsung joins fellow collaborative members Apple, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Sonos, Microsoft, Amazon, and Seagate.

Though the U.S. EPA banned polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 1979 for hundreds of applications, exposure persists. In addition to communities burdened with persistent contamination, PCBs still linger in the food chain and in many old buildings, including schools.

ChemFORWARD is proud to partner with Google and work together to support safer material choices across industry sectors.

As packaging design advances to support recyclability and compostability, safe building blocks can be hard to pinpoint and hazardous chemicals can be difficult to avoid. To help companies tackle this challenge, The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) is excited to launch CleanPackage, a database of verified safer alternative packaging materials.

ChemFORWARD, a science-based, nonprofit organization, announces "Know Better, Do Better," the first-of-its kind collaboration of industry-leading beauty companies Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Credo, Beautycounter, and The Honest Company, as well as ingredient designer Inolex and the global nonprofit organization Environmental Defense Fund. These stakeholders are banding together to promote the use of safer chemistry and improve chemical hazard data to enable informed decision making.

Heather McKenney Joins ChemFORWARD as Safer Chemistry Lead

APRIL 6, 2023 - ChemFORWARD, a science-based non-profit organization, has partnered with Apple to scale the adoption of safer chemistry used in electronics assembly worldwide. A new website, www.ChemWorks.org, provides free access to identify certified safer formulations as well as resources for formulators to screen and optimize their products with verified safer chemicals.

Ahlstrom’s Cristal® Transparent Packaging papers achieve SAFER™ Designation, helping brands demonstrate human and environmental safety

ChemFORWARD Releases v1 Botanicals Hazard Assessment Methodology