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Packets Up & Store, Not Décor AMERICAN CLEANING INSTITUTE Store, Not Décor As people sought home dѐcor and organization inspiration, an alarming trend emerged that prioritizes style over safety. Over the last year and a half, we have seen just how common this trend of storing liquid laundry packets in clear containers and glorifying unsafe storage practices in the laundry room has become. PACKETS UP®, an initiative aimed to educate on proper storage of liquid laundry packets to…
High-Resolution Global Mean-Annual Surface Runoff And River Flow Datasets For Use In Risk Assessments Raghu Vamshi1, Kathleen McDonough2, Kathy Stanton3, Amy Ritter1 1Waterborne Environmental 2Procter & Gamble 3American Cleaning Institute SETAC North America, Toronto November 4th, 2019 Outline 2  Introduction Methodology Processing Results Flow comparison Summary Applications Global River Flow – Introduction 3 Outside the United States, no high-…
Read Press Release Q. Which of the following cleaning tasks do you enjoy doing the most? (Top Ranked Response) 24% Laundry 21% Cleaning countertops 21% Vacuuming 17% Dishes 7% Cleaning Furniture 7% Wiping windows 4% Polishing floors Q. How often, if ever, do you read the instructions on the tag for how to wash your clothes before washing them? 35% All of the time 42% Some of the time 16% Rarely 6% Never Q. Approximately what percentage of the time that you do laundry do you use cold, warm…
Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathroom Top the List of Spring Cleaning Targets Product Effectiveness is Most Important Attribute for Spring Cleaners Statistic Recap Here Yearly spring cleaning is on the rise in 2022, according to new consumer data released by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI). The survey, conducted by Ipsos, found that 78% of Americans spring clean at least once per year, up nearly 10% from just one year ago. Although fewer Americans reported spring cleaning yearly in…
LIQUID LAUNDRY PACKET SAFETY STANDARD LABEL FEATURES 1. Manipulative skill or dexterity to open 2. Test criteria for being child-resistant 3. Intellectual skill of a child at least six years old to open 4. Force greater than what a child is capable of generating to open 5. Hand dexterity characteristics greater than those of an average-sized child to open PACKAGE FEATURES PACKET FEATURES Warning Information Safety Icons First Aid Instructions /AmericanCleaningInstitute @…
New Research Shows Nearly 800,000 Posts Promoting Laundry Packets Storage Outside Original Containers Over Four-Year Period Practice Puts Americans at Risk for Unintentional Poisonings, says American Cleaning Institute More than half of parents are not making safe decisions when storing cleaning products Read more about creating an organized, functional and safe laundry room Learn more about the research and survey Unsafe storage of liquid laundry packets was portrayed nearly 800,000…
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2019 ACI Mid-Year Meeting! We hope you can also join us for the Fall Meeting, September 10-12 in Washington, DC.  Members can access resources from the meeting, including presentation materials, on the Members Only Website. ACI Headquarters Washington, DC 20005 United States Mon, 06/17/2019 - 09:00 Wed, 06/19/2019 - 17:00
Data released at a meeting of the standard setting body ASTM International showed the continuing positive impact of its liquid laundry packets voluntary safety standard. The standard aims to decrease incidents among children under the age of six related to liquid laundry packets. An independent study reported a 61% decrease in incident rates for 2018, compared to 2012-13, and the lowest absolute number of incidents since measurement began in 2012-13, continuing a three-year downward trend…
Washington, D.C. – October 19, 2018 – The global cleaning product supply chain can now prepare to do business as registration is open for the 2019 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Industry Convention. ACI member companies are able to register for the industry’s signature business-to-business event on ACI’s website, www.cleaninginstitute.org. The theme for the 93rd ACI Annual Meeting &…
Guidance for the Risk Assessment of Enzyme-Containing Consumer Products Guidance for the Risk Assessment of Enzyme-Containing Consumer Products The information contained in this publication was created and/or compiled by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI)® and is offered solely to aid the reader. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but ACI and its member companies do not make any guarantees, representations, or warranties, expressed or…