To further enhance the safety and environmental effect of IT products, TCO Certified now accepts evaluations from ChemFORWARD, a significant provider of chemical hazard assessments, as an additional chemical assessment technique.
Currently, tens of thousands of chemicals are used worldwide. The effects of very few on the environment or human health have been investigated. The revolutionary TCO Certified Accepted Substance List identifies substances that are safer options, hastening the transition to safer substitutes.
The use of safer chemicals in electronics will proceed at a faster pace with the addition of ChemFORWARD assessments to its Certified Accepted Substance List. Enhancing the safety and environmental effect of the technology industry is in line with TCO Certified’s purpose, and thus reinforces efforts to make electronics more sustainable.
For flame retardants, plasticizers, stabilizers, and process chemicals, the TCO Certified Accepted Substance List has up until now depended on the GreenScreen danger methodology to provide independent assessments. We’ll keep working together like this.
Key Comments
“The addition of ChemFORWARD and their extensive database of assessed chemicals enables us to continue to expand TCO Certified Accepted Substance List to include even more chemical categories. This will make it easier to provide safer alternatives assessed in an equally comprehensive and transparent way. TCO Certified will continue to show that identifying safer alternatives as part of product design and material selection process is the only viable way toward a sustainable life cycle for IT products,” says Stephen Fuller, expert on hazardous substances at TCO Development, the organization behind TCO Certified.
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