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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Safer Choice label, previously known as the Design for the Environment (DfE) label, helps consumers and commercial buyers identify and select products with safer chemical ingredients, without sacrificing quality or performance. When a product has the Safer Choice label, it means that every intentionally - added ingredient in the product has been evaluated by EPA scientists. Only the safest possible functional ingredients are allowed in products with the Safer Choice label. Safer Choice is a voluntary partnership program that is grounded in more than 40 years of EPA experience in evaluating the human health and environmental characteristics of chemicals. As of July 2015, more than 2,000 products qualify to carry the Safer Choice label. Businesses can apply to become partners by submitting their products to Safer Choice for review. == Introduction == For the past 15 years, EPA's label for safer chemical products has been known as the Design for the Environment, or the “DfE” label. After spending more than a year collecting ideas and discussing new label options with stakeholders, such as product manufacturers and environmental & health advocates, the EPA took its ideas to consumers and asked what worked best. The result is the new Safer Choice label. Products that carry the Safer Choice label must meet requirements for〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www2.epa.gov/saferchoice/learn-about-safer-choice-label )〕: * Safer chemical ingredients * Product performance * Packaging sustainability * Ingredient disclosure * Surveillance and audits * Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emissions == History == EPA’s Safer Choice Program is a renaming of the Design for the Environment (DfE) Safer Product Labeling Program. DfE began in the early 1990s as an innovative, voluntary program to help companies consider human health, environmental, and economic effects of chemicals and technologies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www2.epa.gov/saferchoice/history-safer-choice-and-design-environment )〕 DfE started the Safer Product Labeling Program as a project with the chemical-based products industry (e.g. cleaners and detergents) to help leading companies use safer chemicals to make high-performing products. DfE developed this certification program based on its Standard for Safer Products〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www2.epa.gov/saferchoice/standard )〕 and safer chemical criteria, allowing companies to differentiate their products in the marketplace and making it easier for consumers and business purchasers to identify products that are safer for workers, families, pets, and the environment. Using its science-based criteria that defines safer chemistry by chemical class, Safer Choice has helped the industry innovate and develop safer chemicals and chemical-based products. A number of companies have designed new chemicals to meet Safer Choice criteria, or invested in research to show that existing chemicals are safer. In March 2015, the Safer Choice label replaced the DfE product label, marking the transition from the Safer Product Labeling Program to the Safer Choice Program. The new Safer Choice label helps consumers, businesses and institutional buyers easily recognize products that have earned EPA’s Safer Choice certification. In addition to the Safer Choice label above, Safer Choice offers an optional label that product manufacturers may use on products designated for businesses, office buildings, sports venues and schools. Safer Choice also has a label that indicates that a product is fragrance-free, to help consumers who prefer products without fragrance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EPA Safer Choice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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