Safe Products, Made Safely: Tools for Businesses

This full day workshop will provide a framework for evaluating the best approaches and tools for your business in meeting goals to eliminate or reduce the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products and processes throughout the supply chain. Increasingly businesses are recognizing the value and cost savings from reducing toxic inputs, including regulatory compliance, reduced liability, and meeting consumer demand for safer products. The workshop will cover the regulatory landscape and other drivers for safer chemistry, as well as specific tools designed to meet business needs for hazard assessment, life cycle assessment and alternatives assessment.

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Workshop Presenters:

• Ben Bezark (Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute)
• David Levine (American Sustainable Business Council)
• Kathleen Schuler, MPH (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)
• Lin Kaatz Chary, PhD, MPH (Great Lakes Green Chemistry Network)
• Mark Rossi, PhD (Biz-NGO Work Group, Clean Production Action)
• Pam Eliason (Toxics Use Reduction Institute)
• Sean Burek (The Wercs)

Cosponsored by:

• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Great Lakes Green Chemistry Network
• New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology
• American Sustainable Business Council
• Atlantic States Legal Foundation
• Clean and Healthy New York
• Just Green Partnership
• New York State Sustainable Business Council
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• University of Buffalo, Department of Chemistry

This workshop is supported by a 2012 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Grant by U.S. EPA.

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