Create and Access Safer Chemistry
CHemical hazard data trust
Managed by ChemFORWARD, the data trust is designed to simplify access to chemical hazard data from dozens of credible sources, curate, maintain and continuously improve the data, and harmonize the information for actionable decision support that will accelerate the global transition to safer chemistry
ACCESS THE CHEMICAL HAZARD DATA TRUST
Trusted chemical hazard data is available as a service that can be accessed in multiple formats including:
A secure, cloud-based chemical hazard screening platform that helps you eliminate high hazards, make informed substitution, and ultimately design with verified safer chemistry.
Measuring what matters. Ingredient Intelligence Reports are used to provide clear, comparable data for chemical management and ESG reporting.
Seamlessly integrates with your systems, providing direct access to our comprehensive database of chemical hazard information.
Free resources to help users optimize plastic additives to increase circularity, screen and reformulate cleaners and degreasers to protect workers, eliminate harmful pigments to improve water quality, chemical hazard assessments, and more!
EDUCATIONAL ACCESS
COMING SOON: Empowering the next generation of chemists to design safer materials by creating broad access to chemical hazard data
TOXIC IS EASY, SAFE IS HARD
“It takes a lot more information to prove that a chemical is inherently safe than it does to prove that it is toxic. Just knowing that a chemical is a known carcinogen or that it causes skin sensitization can be enough to rule it out as a good candidate for product applications. But to be sure that it is inherently benign for its intended use means that nearly two dozen human and environmental endpoints need to be considered and data gaps must be filled. A lack of hazard data does not mean that a chemical is inherently benign.”
- Lauren Heine, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, ChemFORWARD
CHEMICAL HAZARD DATA TRUST
ChemFORWARD is a science-based, non-profit organization turning chemical hazard data into positive impact. We manage the Chemical Hazard Data Trust - a new way to bring together unique assets from various organizations that enable and improve the work of safer chemistry. These assets include:
Screening results for 200,000+ chemicals used in commerce;
Hundreds of authoritative lists and industry specific RSLs and MRSLs to screen out known hazards;
Clear, harmonized hazard bands for actionable decision making;
Thousands of low concern safer alternatives;
The leading chemical hazard assessment methodology rooted in GHS and expanded to include endocrine, persistence, bioaccumulation, mobility and more.
Comprehensive chemical hazard assessments including:
24 human & environmental endpoints
Summary hazard tables: GHS and C2CC views
Three routes of exposure
Endpoint rationales
The Chemical Hazard Data Trust centralizes all of this information and more in shared repository utilizing a unique cost-sharing, data-sharing model that has reduced the cost of access by an order of magnitude.
The Data Trust is designed to simplify access to chemical hazard data from dozens of credible sources, curate, maintain and continuously improve the data, and harmonize the information for actionable decision support.
Hazard summary table
Chemical hazard assessments are comprehensive toxicology reports on a single chemical. They include hazard data on 24 human and environmental impacts. This hazard summary table provides a quick visual reference for each endpoint and route of exposure.
These assessments are essential to move beyond hazardous chemicals and toward verified safer alternatives.