As a corporate partner, SDA provided 50,000 coupon holders that carry the "Use It
Up" message of the program. The coupon holders will be distributed in selected Los Angeles
supermarkets. According to Jane Meyer, SDA Education Director, "The partnership worked
because it enabled us to communicate our message about the environmentally smart purchase,
use and disposal of household products and, at the same time, help Los Angeles County extend
its outreach efforts."
SDA and other corporate partners were recognized by the County Board of Supervisors
at a recent presentation in Los Angeles. LA County Department of Public Works chairman
Harry Stone said that the program's public-private partnerships "underscore the importance of
government agencies joining forces with the private sector to pursue innovative ways to
disseminate information on crucial environmental issues to the community."
The Soap and Detergent Association is a national trade association, founded in 1926, whose
more than 135 members include the manufacturers of over 90% of the household, industrial and
institutional cleaning products marketed in the U.S. Its member companies include producers of
finished cleaning products, ingredient suppliers and manufacturers of finished packaging.
According to Jane Meyer, SDA Education Director, "As more Americans consider the
purchase of an energy-efficient washer, they're likely to have questions about how to use
laundry products in the new machines. SDA will be working with educators and
communicators to help consumers achieve cleaning results in the new washers that are
equivalent to or better than results in conventional agitator washers."
The Soap and Detergent Association is a national trade association, founded in 1926, whose
more than 135 members include the manufacturers of over 90% of the household, industrial and
institutional cleaning products marketed in the U.S. Its member companies include producers of
finished cleaning products, ingredient suppliers and manufacturers of finished packaging.
To achieve optimal cleaning performance in high-efficiency tumbler
washers,
detergents formulated for these machines should be used.
SDA Offers Listing of Technical Publications & Order Form
New York, NY, September 18, 1996 _ The Soap and
Detergent Association now has
available a listing of recent SDA-sponsored publications on the human and environmental
safety of cleaning products and their ingredients, and the contributions of cleaning products to
personal and public health. According to SDA Technical Director Richard Sedlak, "Our new
Technical Publications & Order Form gives scientists, engineers,
health care professionals and
policy makers a valuable resource for finding research-based information
about industry products."
The listing features brief descriptions and information on ordering more than 20 books,
booklets, monographs and reprints from scientific and industry journals. Readers are also able
to order a listing of SDA publications that contain general information
about soaps and detergents, and
the safe and effective use and disposal of cleaning products.
Click here for Technical Publications & Order
Form.
The Soap and Detergent Association is a national trade association, founded in 1926, whose
more than 135 members include the manufacturers of over 90% of the household, industrial and
institutional cleaning products marketed in the U.S. Its member companies include producers of
finished cleaning products, ingredient suppliers and manufacturers of finished packaging.
SDA Wins Regulatory Relief for Antimicrobial Cleaning Products
New York, NY, July 26, 1996 _ Changes sought by The Soap
and Detergent
Association (SDA) in the regulatory treatment of antimicrobial cleaning products are included
in the Food Quality Protection Act approved by the Senate on July 24. President Clinton has
said he will sign the pesticide reform measure, which is identical to legislation passed the day
before by the House.
"Disinfectant cleaning products provide important public health benefits," said SDA
President Gerald R. Pflug, Ph.D. "Streamlining the regulatory process to recognize their
unique role will encourage product research and facilitate the introduction of additional safe
and effective antimicrobial products in the marketplace."
Amending the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to provide
regulatory relief for manufacturers of antimicrobial cleaning products and their ingredient
suppliers has been a major SDA effort for more than three years. Because disinfectant and
sanitizing cleaning products are classified as pesticides under FIFRA, they have been subjected
to the same regulatory treatment as agricultural pesticides at the state and federal levels. SDA
has worked with the Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Chemical Specialties
Manufacturers Association and the International Sanitary Supply Association to distinguish
antimicrobial products under FIFRA and to provide them with a separate regulatory track.
Both goals have been achieved in the Food Quality Protection Act. The measure
provides that FIFRA contain a definition of "antimicrobial pesticides" which serves to
differentiate cleaning products from other pesticides. Further, EPA is mandated to establish
firm time lines for completion of various regulatory steps, ranging from the approval of new
active ingredients to label changes.
This regulatory process will be the focus of SDA efforts over the next two years.
The Soap and Detergent Association is a national trade association, founded in 1926, whose
more than 135 members include the manufacturers of over 90% of the household, industrial and
institutional cleaning products marketed in the U.S. Its member companies include producers of
finished cleaning products, ingredient suppliers and manufacturers of finished packaging.
SDA Publishes Two Environmental Monographs
New York, NY, June 20, 1996 _ The Soap and Detergent
Association (SDA) has
published risk assessment monographs that substantiate the environmental acceptability of LAS
and DHTDMA+, two key cleaning product ingredients. According to Richard Sedlak, SDA
Technical Director, "The extensive fate and effects data that exist for these two ingredients
justify the conclusion that LAS and DHTDMA+ are safe for the environment as they are
currently used in U.S. cleaning products."
Linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) is an anionic surfactant used in many powder and
liquid laundry detergents, dishwashing liquids and specialty household cleaners.
Dihydrogenated tallow dimethyl ammonium chemicals (DHTDMA+) are cationic surfactants
used in laundry fabric softener products, including rinse-added liquid fabric softeners, dryer-added softener sheets and
detergent plus fabric softener.
Environmental risk assessments of LAS and DHTDMA+ were carried out based on
broadly endorsed scientific principles. This process was described by SDA in "Environmental
Risk Assessment of Cleaning Product Ingredients," published recently in
Chemosphere (Vol.
32, No. 4). Essentially the risk assessment process involves: 1) estimating the concentration
below which an ingredient has no environmental effect, and the concentration in the
environment that results from use of the ingredient; 2) comparing these two concentrations;
and 3) deciding on the basis of this comparison whether the use of the ingredient is clearly
acceptable or clearly hazardous, or whether more testing is required in order to make such a
determination.
The LAS and DHTDMA+ monographs, as well as the environmental risk assessment
publication and SDA's 1995 publication on human risk assessment ("Approaches to Human
Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Cleaning Products," Journal of
Toxicology _
Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology, Vol. 14, No. 2) are part of the
Association's ongoing
program to review and publish data on the human and environmental safety of cleaning product
ingredients.
The Soap and Detergent Association is a national trade association, founded in 1926, whose
more than 135 members include the manufacturers of over 90% of the household, industrial and
institutional cleaning products marketed in the U.S. Its member companies include producers of
finished cleaning products, ingredient suppliers and manufacturers of finished packaging.
SDA & CTFA Data Support Healthcare Continuum Model
New York, NY, December 14, 1995 _ The Soap and Detergent
Association (SDA)
and The Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA) yesterday submitted
comprehensive data to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demonstrating effectiveness
of the active antimicrobial ingredients used in six categories of antimicrobial cleaning products
proposed by industry. Calling the data "clear and compelling," SDA and CTFA requested
FDA acceptance of the efficacy of these ingredients.
The submission, which includes published and unpublished data, supports the
Healthcare Continuum
Model (HCCM) developed by industry for regulating topical
antimicrobial drug products. Adoption of the HCCM to assure the continued availability of
safe and effective hand and body wash products for everyday consumer use was urged by the
associations in their June 15 joint comments on FDA's Tentative Final Monograph (TFM) on
topical antimicrobial over-the-counter (OTC) drug products.
The HCCM classifies topical antimicrobial wash products into six
categories two
product categories intended for use by the general population (antimicrobial handwashes and
antimicrobial bodywashes); three for use by healthcare professionals (patient preoperative skin
preparations, surgical scrubs, healthcare personnel handwashes); and one for use by
foodhandlers (foodhandler handwashes). The Healthcare Continuum Model reflects the
Agency's historical position that not all topical antimicrobial drug products are used for the
same purpose, and that testing requirements should be designed to differentiate between the
categories based on the intended use of the products.
In its 1994 TFM, FDA proposed creating only three topical
antimicrobial product
categories: antiseptic handwash or healthcare personnel handwash, patient preoperative skin
preparation and surgical hand scrub. As a result, all home-use products would inappropriately
have to meet the test requirements for products designed for healthcare settings.
The December 15 submission summarizes data that support use of the
following
ingredients in the six HCCM product categories: triclocarban; triclosan; chloroxyenol;
povidone-iodine; alcohol; and quaternary ammonium compounds.
FDA is expected to review all comments and data filed on the TFM
before deciding
whether to promulgate a final monograph for topical antimicrobial OTC drug products or seek
additional comment from the public.
The Soap and Detergent Association is a national trade
organization, founded in 1926,
whose 138 members include the manufacturers of over 90 percent of the soaps
and detergents
produced in the United States each year. Its member companies include producers of finished
household, industrial and institutional cleaning products, as well as raw materials suppliers.
CTFA is the national trade association representing the personal care products industry.
Founded in 1894, the association represents approximately 550 companies that manufacture or
distribute personal care products or supply products or services to those manufacturers or
distributors.
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