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ACI Announces the "Home Safety: When Safety Comes First, You Last" Program, the 2016 Recipient of the Clean and Healthy Families & Communities Award
Award Recipients
Congratulations to team lead, Rachel Hubbard, and team members, Sylvia Davis, Mitzi Parker, Suzanne Williams, Roxie Price, Kayla Craft and Andrea Scarrow, all educators from Georgia with Southwest District FACS Agents, who…
Marketing and Communications Strategist
With people and businesses increasingly looking to move away from using fossil fuels, BioPreferred promotes biobased alternatives. Managed by the US Department of Agriculture, the BioPreferred program helps to increase the use of renewable agricultural resources and reduce reliance on petroleum. USDA estimates over 40,000 biobased products are available in the United States. Within ACI's membership, 12 chemical suppliers make bio-…
Feb. 3 Session: Post-COVID: Where Do We Go from Here? Driving the Industry Forward
ACI Convention Set for Jan. 31-Feb. 5, Orlando, FL
Executives from BASF, Clorox and GOJO will discuss how they are navigating the economic roller coaster in the wake of COVID during the Industry Leadership Panel at the 2022 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Industry Convention.
The panelists will discuss the most critical issues impacting the cleaning products supply chain, from megatrends, to post-COVID…
ACI’s Future Leaders represent a broad cross-section of the membership network that spans cleaning product manufacturers to ingredient suppliers. This dedicated cohort has been identified as emerging leaders within their respective companies and serves as forward-thinking, “agents of change” to advance ACI’s objectives and to support innovation and success for the cleaning products industry.
Projects…
EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN IN BUSINESS | WASHINGTON, D.C.
hen it comes to
cleaning, Melissa
Hockstad knows
her stu� . An
engineer with
extensive experience in the chemical
industry, she spent years in product
development and in roles working for
several trade associations representing
chemical and plastics manufacturers.
In 2017, she became president and
CEO of the American Cleaning Institute
(ACI), combining her knowledge of
chemicals and leadership experience.
“We are constantly…
The Soap and Detergent Association
Risk Assessment
Guidance for
Enzyme-Containing
Products
Table of Contents
Preface 2
Executive Summary 3
Chapter 1 — Introduction to Enzymes 4
Chapter 2 — Introduction to Risk Assessment 6
Chapter 3 — Hazard Identification 8
Chapter 4 — Dose-Response Assessment 11
Chapter 5 — Exposure Assessment 17
Chapter 6 — Risk Characterization 23
Chapter 7 — Risk Management 28
Chapter 8 — Conclusions 30
Bibliography 31
Glossary 38
Appendix 1 — Estimation…
THE FUNCTION OF ENZYMES IN CLEANING | ENZYMES ENABLE SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL SAVINGS | SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS FOR ENZYMESTHE ROLE OF ENZYMES IN DETERGENT PRODUCTS
The role of enzymes
in detergent products
The industry’s commitment to safe and sustainable use
What is an enzyme?
An enzyme is a catalyst which can speed up biological processes. Enzymes exist in
all of nature – in microorganisms, plants, animals, as well as human bodies. Enzymes
were introduced as…
11In-House Counsel Committee, June 2018
INGREDIENT COMMUNICATION AND
TRANSPARENCY IN CLEANING PRODUCTS:
A WIDENING LANDSCAPE
Douglas M. Troutman
Since the era of the seventies, requirements
for more information about cleaning product
ingredients have been part of the legislative and
regulatory landscape. In just the past decade,
stakeholders including industry, nongovernmental
organizations, and consumer interest groups have
engaged on many fronts. Changes in federal
chemical…
© American Cleaning Institute 2012
Final Report Fatty Alcohols in the Riverine Environment: The effect of wastewater treatment type and Eco-region
A study of the fatty alcohols in the influent, effluent and sediments associated with municipal
wastewater treatment plants in Oklahoma, Ohio and Oregon, USA.
Prepared for the American Cleaning Institute by
Stephen M. Mudge
August 2012
© American Cleaning Institute 2012 2
Abstract
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Brian Sansoni, SDA – 202-680-9327
Scott Openshaw, GMA – 202-295-3957
Gretchen Schaefer, CSPA – 202-872-8100
Washington, DC (October 6, 2009) – Before a historic conference on modernizing the Toxic
Substances Control Act of 1976, the Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA), Grocery
Manufacturers Association (GMA) and The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) today
offered eight building blocks to help guide the development of an updated law for…