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PPG INDUSTRIES AND KODAK USE EPA P2 FRAMEWORK TO MAKE SAFER CHEMICALS
Release Date: 10/28/99
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1999
PPG INDUSTRIES AND KODAK USE EPA P2 FRAMEWORK
TO MAKE SAFER CHEMICALS
PPG Industries and Eastman Kodak are among a growing number of companies using EPA’s methodology for assessing the environmental and health risks of chemicals in new product development efforts. This methodology allows companies to design and manufacture safer products while improving efficiency of research and development efforts. EPA’s Pollution Prevention Framework (P2 Framework) is a series of computer-based models that help identify a chemical’s risk potential. These models use chemical structure to estimate a chemical’s impact in several areas including toxicity to aquatic organisms, environmental fate, cancer-causing potential and worker exposure. EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics developed these methods to assess chemicals when laboratory data are lacking. Companies can use the P2 Framework to design, develop and manufacture safer and more sustainable products. In the design stage researchers can evaluate several potential products and make selections based in part on health and safety data generated using the P2 Framework. This can reduce the amount of costly and lengthy product development and laboratory testing that companies undertake when products are in the development stage and allow their products to enter the market place sooner. For more information on the P2 Framework, contact Maggie Wilson at 202-260-3902 or Bill Waugh at 202-260-3489.
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