A Decade of Safer Consumer Products
The SCP Program has turned 10 years old! Please join us in celebrating this major milestone and all our accomplishments to date.
In our first decade, we built a regulatory program from scratch that has already prevented millions of pounds of hazardous chemicals from reaching California homes, workplaces, and ecosystems by motivating manufacturers to remove unnecessary chemicals of concern or to seek safer alternatives for those uses that are critical to their products.
To learn more about our work and our impact over the past decade:
Read our report
Watch our brief video
Explore our story map
See our one-pager
Coincidentally, 2023 is also the 25th anniversary of the 12 principles of green chemistry and the 15th anniversary of the California Green Chemistry Initiative. Since its inception in October 2013, the SCP Program has helped advance green chemistry solutions in California and beyond by leveraging its precautionary regulatory framework and contributing to the global dialogue on Alternatives Analysis.
Will you help us celebrate this milestone?
We want to hear your reflections and ideas via email or social media (#ADecadeSafer) – reflections on SCP’s past decade of work advancing the design, development, and use of products that are chemically safer for people and the environment; and ideas for how we can grow our impact in the decades to come.
Here’s how you can contribute to help shape the next decades of safer consumer products:
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SCP Key Info
- About Safer Consumer Products
- Program Overview
- Priority Product Work Plan
- Candidate Chemicals
- Priority Products
- Alternatives Analysis
- Regulatory Response
- Compliance & Enforcement
- Research Studies
- Early-stage SCP Projects
- Information Call-in
- Healthy Nail Salon Recognition Program
- Limiting Copper in Brake Pads