EPA Names Clorox as 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year for Advancing Ingredient and Product Safety
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The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) has been named a 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the seventh time. This award recognizes Clorox's outstanding achievement in manufacturing products with ingredients designated as safer for families, pets, workplaces, communities, and the environment.
Several U.S. Clorox products carry the EPA's Safer Choice or Design for the Environment labels, including Clorox® Free and Clear products and the CloroxPro® EcoClean product line. These labels indicate that the ingredients have met rigorous human and environmental health criteria.
This recognition aligns with Clorox's commitment to ingredient transparency and advocacy, which are critical elements of the company's ESG goals embedded in its corporate IGNITE strategy. The award supports Clorox's efforts to enhance consumer confidence through certification programs and builds upon its longstanding product stewardship initiatives.
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- Received EPA's Safer Choice Partner of the Year award for the seventh time
- Multiple Clorox products carry EPA's Safer Choice or Design for the Environment labels
- Aligns with company's ESG goals and IGNITE strategy
- Enhances consumer confidence through certification programs
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Clorox receives honorary distinction for seventh time, demonstrating continued commitment to product stewardship
This is the company's seventh time receiving this award in the formulation/product manufacturing award category, previously recognized as a Safer Choice Partner of the Year in 2016, 2017, 2020, 202, 2022 and 2023.
The Safer Choice and Design for the Environment labels help consumers and organizations find products that perform and are made with safer ingredients. Several
"With products in 9 out of 10 U.S. homes, Clorox has an immense responsibility and opportunity to champion ingredient transparency and advocacy while supporting environmental health," said Lisa Pankiewicz, Vice President Global Stewardship at The Clorox Company. "Being named a Safer Choice Partner is critical to maintaining trust with our consumers and reflects our dedication to world-class product stewardship."
Ingredient transparency and advocacy are critical elements of Clorox's environmental, social, governance, or ESG, goals embedded in the company's corporate IGNITE strategy. Representing a key benchmark in this ongoing work, this award supports Clorox's commitment to enhance consumer confidence in its products through certification programs.
This recognition also builds upon Clorox's longstanding product stewardship efforts, including becoming the first major consumer packaged goods company to voluntarily disclose ingredients in the
About The Clorox Company
The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) champions people to be well and thrive every single day. Its trusted brands include Brita®, Burt's Bees®, Clorox®, Fresh Step®, Glad®, Hidden Valley®, Kingsford®, Liquid-Plumr® and Pine-Sol® as well as international brands such as Clorinda®, Chux® and Poett®. Headquartered in
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About EPA Safer Choice program
Safer Choice encourages use of chemicals that meet 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. EPA scientists examine every ingredient—no matter its concentration—to make sure Safer Choice-certified products contain only the safest possible ingredients. 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.
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