Consumer Product Ingredient Safety: Exposure and Risk Screening Methods for Consumer Product Ingredients

In 2004, The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) published Exposure and Risk Screening Methods for Consumer Product Ingredients as a guide for companies engaged in stewardship of consumer products with repeated human exposures or environmental releases, especially via down-the-drain disposal. Included in the publication were several examples based on SDA’s experience in the US EPA and OECD high production volume (HPV) chemical programs. Since the initial publication, several of the submissions for particular chemical categories sponsored by SDA have been completed and accepted by the relevant HPV chemical program, and peer-reviewed journal articles have been published for those cases. The second edition, re-titled Consumer Product Ingredient Safety: Exposure and Risk Screening Methods for Consumer Product Ingredients to highlight the broader applicability of the publication, contains updated information on exposure assessment methodology as well as finalized case studies and the final manuscripts of the peer-reviewed articles as appendixes.