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Safer Choice

Resources for Safer Choice Product Manufacturers

This page gives Safer Choice partners and product manufacturers information they need to qualify and apply for the Safer Choice label. To carry the label, a product must meet the Safer Choice Standard, which includes:

  • Criteria for Safer Chemical Ingredients and
  • Requirements for: 
    • performance;
    • packaging;
    • pH; and
    • VOCs.

Learn about partnering with the Safer Choice Program

Federal green purchasing

For manufacturers interested in selling Safer Choice-labeled products to the federal sector, guidance is available at Selling Greener Products and Services to the Federal Government.

Resources to find safer chemical alternatives