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LENEXA, KAN. (JAN. 31, 2024) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now accepting applications for the 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Awards. The awards will recognize the leadership contributions of Safer Choice partners and stakeholders who, over the past year, have shown achievement in the design, manufacture, selection, promotion, sale and use of Safer Choice or Design for the Environment (DfE)-certified products, that further outstanding or innovative source reduction.
As part of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment, the Safer Choice program partners with businesses to help consumers and commercial buyers identify products with safer chemical ingredients, without sacrificing quality or performance. Similarly, the DfE program helps people find disinfectants that meet high standards for human health and the environment.
In support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals, EPA especially encourages submission of award applications that show how the applicant’s work involving products with safer chemical ingredients promotes environmental justice, bolsters resilience to the impacts of climate change, results in cleaner air or water, improves drinking water quality or advances innovation in packaging.
Submissions are due by April 25, 2024. Award winners will be recognized at a ceremony later in 2024.
Learn more about the awards, including the application form, submission process and past winners.
Safer Choice
Safer Choice encourages chemistry that meets EPA’s stringent criteria for human health and the environment and provides opportunities for companies to differentiate their products in the marketplace with the Safer Choice label. With thousands of certified products, the Safer Choice label is a reliable way for people to find products whose chemical ingredients have met EPA’s criteria for being safer without sacrificing performance. Visit the Safer Choice program website for more information.
Design for the Environment
Similar to the Safer Choice label, EPA’s DfE logo helps people identify antimicrobial products like disinfectants that meet the health and safety standards of the normal pesticide registration process required by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act as well as meeting the DfE certification criteria (as described in the Safer Choice Standard). When a person sees EPA’s DfE logo on a product, they can feel confident that the product performs and meets stringent EPA criteria for human health and the environment. Visit the Design for the Environment website for more information.
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