Partners

We are starting a product revolution. In this new norm, manufacturers will feel market pressure to avoid ingredients with known or likely human health risks, according to the best existing science and medical evidence. Year by year, we aim to demonstrate a growing market demand for nontoxic products. As progressive companies gain market share and profits, they will form a lobbying constituency with clout, funds, job growth, and other influence to support necessary legislation at the state and federal level. If we simply wait for our legislatures to act, we will likely wait a very long time. We provide an immediate solution to the problem of unregulated industrial chemicals in consumer goods, and act as a catalyst for wider change with a market-based vision.

In order to change how products are made, we bestow a Seal of Approval on products that meet stringent ingredient standards and production criteria. We currently have two phases / levels of certification: MADE SAFE^® and MADE SAFE Nontoxic Certified™.

• To receive the MADE SAFE certification, products must undergo a rigorous paper screening that includes supply chain scrutiny as well as safety data information and full disclosure of every item in a given product, regardless of trade secrets. Product ingredients are screened against our Toxicant Database as well as other known modeling data capabilities (such as Ecosar, Q-sar, Eco-suite) by a scientist, and further vetted by the MADE SAFE team.
• To receive the MADE SAFE Nontoxic Certified™ seal, products must pass the MADE SAFE certification process and then undergo laboratory testing as well. Testing is done to whole product mixture and is conducted once every two years (or as formulations, ingredients, or other supply chain changes occur).

The Toxicant Database is based on existing science. Laboratory testing is designed to capture possible toxicity that may not yet be outlined in scientific literature, and is therefore not yet part of the database or modeling tools. The biological screens are designed to probe broadly for complex systemic effects. Testing guidelines are developed in conjunction with chemists, doctors, researchers and subject matter experts. We provide businesses and consumers with a trusted third party verification system.

Given that we are not a scientific organization, but one that heavily relies on science for our processes, we wanted to form a relationship with another independent entity in order to partner on the scientific portion of our processes.

We are pleased to have found the perfect partner in Advancing Green Chemistry (AGC). AGC develops practical tools to probe difficult toxicity endpoints to aid green chemists in creating safer products. AGC developed and facilitates the use of the TiPED testing protocol (http://www.tipedinfo.com/) that can delve deeply into a chemical’s potential to act as an endocrine disruptor. For MADE SAFE Nontoxic Certified, AGC will apply part of its TiPED platform to screen whole products for a wide range of possible toxicities.

The pace of scientific discoveries in how chemicals act in biological systems is staggering. It is imperative that the MADE SAFE Nontoxic Certified seal accurately reflect and incorporate the latest research discoveries. That is one reason why re-certification is necessary, and why AGC is committed to incorporating new science and better screening assays in the testing protocol as they become available.

We have formed a strategic partnership with AGC to carry out a majority of lab testing for our MADE SAFE Nontoxic Certified seal. They are also providing additional scientific support for our MADE SAFE screening process when requested. The AGC team is led by Pete Myers, PhD, co-author of Our Stolen Future and Founder and Chief Scientist at Environmental Health Sciences; as well as Julie Jones, Executive Director of Advancing Green Chemistry.

We are delighted and honored to be working as sister organizations with AGC. Our teams are mutually aligned in the desire to further green chemistry as the best approach to solving the current chemical conundrum plaguing consumers, manufacturers, and retailers today. AGC and the TiPED platform provides the scientific framework for us to carryout our Nontoxic Certification process so that we can bring this seal to market and create real marketplace change.

MADE SAFE Nontoxic Certification is the future of safe and sustainable product manufacturing. In partnership with AGC, we are making it easier for manufacturers to construct safe goods, easier for retailers to select products that are safe for their customers, and easier for shoppers to identify and buy better goods for themselves and their families.

This leaves the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for regulating cosmetics and personal care products, with virtually no power to perform even the most rudimentary functions to ensure the safety of an estimated $71 billion cosmetic industry.

MADE SAFE® is proud to be partnering with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a project of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners. This coalition is leading the way for cosmetic safety reform at the national level, working with women’s, public health, labor, environmental health and consumer rights groups to protect the health of consumers, workers and the environment. Through public education and engagement, corporate accountability and sustainability campaigns, and legislative advocacy, the Campaign works to eliminate dangerous chemicals linked to adverse health impacts from the cosmetics and personal care products we use every day.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics works with over 1200 forward-thinking cosmetics companies who are growing the safe cosmetics industry and proving safe cosmetics are possible. MADE SAFE invites cosmetics and personal care products to join the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Business Network, which is a group of retailers, manufacturers, formulators, business owners and other members of the cosmetics and personal care products industry that support the mission and goals of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and partner with the Campaign in the following ways:

Educate

• Share the Campaign’s print and online materials to promote safer personal care products and cosmetics, including with professional networks and constituencies.
• Link to safecosmetics.org on company websites to let people know they’re a member of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

Spread the Word

• Share Campaign action alerts and social media posts, and promote Campaign reports, videos and other initiatives.
• Blog about safer cosmetics and related topics.
• Submit comments, letters to the editor or opinion pieces to online and print media outlets.

Show Up and Chime In

• Organize, support or attend safe cosmetics educational events and community forums.
• Join the Campaign in product testing, report generation and distribution, corporate targeting and legislative advocacy campaigns in person and online.
• Join Campaign conference calls, webinars and meetings to learn more and offer their own great ideas and organizing strategies for how to get safe cosmetics in the hands of everyone!

The consumer magazine co-hosts the annual full-day conference “Raise the Green Bar” with MADE SAFE at the GH headquarters in New York City, bringing together experts and advocates to discuss the state and future of ‘green,’ ‘clean,’ and ‘safe’ consumer products. “We are always looking for ways to protect and inform consumers, and MADE SAFE added an element to what we could bring to the table,” said Good Housekeeping Deputy Editor and Institute Director Laurie Jennings. “Their expertise and knowledge of harmful chemicals and toxins aligns with the Good Housekeeping Institute’s mission to provide consumers with the best information so they can make informed decisions.”

The partners of the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families coalition represent more than 11 million individuals including parents, health professionals, advocates for people with learning and developmental disabilities, reproductive health advocates, environmentalists and businesses from across the nation.