Risk Evaluation
The Janitorial Products Pollution Prevention Project has evaluated health and safety risks for several hundred chemical ingredients that are commonly found in janitorial products.
The following links go to tables that summarize our risk evaluations for nearly 100 of these ingredients, and suggest whether or not we think each ingredient should be used.
- Ingredients to Avoid
- Ingredients to Avoid If Possible/Otherwise Use With Extreme Care
- Ingredients to Use With Extreme Care
- Ingredients to Use With Ordinary Care
We encourage you to investigate for yourself the specific ingredients in the products that you use. Much of the information you will need is available in material safety data sheets, toxicology studies, and other published literature available on the internet.
Refer to the Chemfinder web site to find and download copies of these references. Because there are so many different names for each ingredient, you will find it easier to use the CAS number as a search word.
Janitorial Products Pollution Prevention Project - Sponsored by US EPA, State of California, Santa Clara County, the City of Richmond, and the Local Government Commission. Written by Thomas Barron, Carol Berg, and Linda Bookman. 6/99.