Sustainability Challenge:
A growing global population depends on safe and environmentally sustainable products to increase the world food supply and food security.
Chemistry Solution:
FMC’s Product Stewardship and Sustainability Assessment Tool enables the company to evaluate products throughout their life cycle with a focus on enhancing sustainability and reducing its environmental footprint.
Sustainability Benefit:
By continually evaluating ingredients and sharing information, FMC is enhancing the safe and sustainable use of agricultural products.
Consumers and other stakeholders are increasingly seeking detailed safety and sustainability information about chemical ingredients in the products they use every day.
To meet this demand, BASF applies its Product Stewardship Worldwide efforts and “ Sustainable Solution Steering” methodology to assess the safety and sustainability of all of its products, based on their specific applications.
BASF undertakes a transparent, consistent sustainability performance evaluation of the more than 60,000 products in its portfolio, to holistically evaluate the environmental, economic and social aspects of those products over their entire lifecycle. Company researchers and scientists review the safety of BASF products, from research and development, through production, customers’ use, all the way through end of life recycling, recovery or disposal.
This safety assessment includes an evaluation of the intended use of the substance and the extent to which people come into contact with a chemical ingredient in a product, for how long and in what amount. BASF has set a public target to review the safety assessments of all of the products sold worldwide in volumes great than one ton by 2020.
BASF provides safety information about the products it manufactures around the globe, through a comprehensive global product database that includes detailed safety data sheets for all of the products the company manufactures. BASF also maintains an extensive internal expert network to support the safe handling and use of their products along the supply chain.