Newswise — Washington, DC, January 28, 2016 – The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) has moved into the final phase of its Cleaning Product Ingredient Safety Initiative (CPISI) in 2016 and looks forward to its completion before the end of the year. ACI is the trade association for the cleaning product supply chain.
“Our ambitious goal with this initiative is to provide complete safety information for every ingredient used in every formulated consumer cleaning product manufactured by our member companies,” said Dr. Paul DeLeo, ACI Associate Vice President, Environmental Safety.
“ACI has spent the past three years successively identifying the inventory of ingredients used in our members’ products, identifying publicly available hazard data for each ingredient, and developing the exposure profile for each ingredient as it is used.”
In 2015, ACI conducted an exposure assessment for each of the nearly 600 ingredients on the Ingredient Inventory which are used in consumer cleaning products.
In addition to developing a quantitative estimate of consumer exposure, ACI published on its website (www.cleaninginstitute.org/CPISI) a description of each ingredient, including:
• the types of products in which it is used • the form of those products • the ingredient’s function within each of those products• the typical concentration range among the products • the most relevant routes of exposure associated with the use of those products.
In 2016, ACI will complete the Initiative by leveraging the information it collected regarding ingredient hazards and exposures to illustrate the margin of safety that is observed for uses of ingredients in consumer cleaning products.
In addition, ACI will continue its campaign of outreach to academics, regulators and other related stakeholders through a variety of public presentations, publications and meetings. For example, ACI made seven presentations at scientific meetings last year, and a series of manuscripts are being drafted for peer-reviewed scientific journals.
For more information, contact ACI’s Paul DeLeo at [email protected].
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The American Cleaning Institute® (ACI) is the Home of the U.S. Cleaning Products Industry® and represents the $30 billion U.S. cleaning products market. ACI members include the formulators of soaps, detergents, and general cleaning products used in household, commercial, industrial and institutional settings; companies that supply ingredients and finished packaging for these products; and oleochemical producers. ACI (www.cleaninginstitute.org) and its members are dedicated to improving health and the quality of life through sustainable cleaning products and practices.
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