1 Lauren Heine, Ph.D. Director of Applied Science Tarek Rached Database Engineer and UVA Systems Engineering MS Candidate Green Blue Institute (GreenBlue) Charlottesville, VA Sustainable Business and Safer Chemistry Through the Supply Chain: An Innovator’s Roundtable Darden Graduate School of Business November 14-16, 2005 The DfE Green Formulation Initiative and CleanGredients™

2 Purpose of the DfE GFI Develop a one-stop database (CleanGredients™) of Industrial & Institutional (I&I) cleaning ingredients and their characteristics* to:  help formulators identify ingredients that may be useful for green product formulations  provide opportunity for manufacturers and producers of cleaning ingredients to showcase their ingredients with environmental and/or human health and safety attributes. Our intention is to promote the development and marketing of innovative, green chemical solutions in the I&I cleaning product industry and to facilitate informed choice. We intend to make the resource accessible to formulators at no cost and to suppliers at low to no cost. *By characteristics we mean functional properties such as critical micelle concentration, physical properties such as log Kow and associated environmental and health toxicological information.

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14 We Hope this Project Will Help Inform a Larger Audience Provide a Showcase for Chemical Ingredients with environmental benefits (Green Chemistry) Provide a fact-based source of relevant environmental fate and toxicity information on potential cleaning product ingredients Allow formulators a one-stop opportunity to select ingredients that will enhance the environmental fate and safety of their formulas Provide a resource for ingredient producers to communicate the environmental fate and safety of ingredients in a standardized input format for current and future ingredients Promote an ethic of continuous improvement Leverage U.S. EPA Formulator Program services. Streamline Partnership by having information on ingredients already reviewed and publicly available.

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