FORMULATE WITH CONFIDENCE. 

CLEAN WITH IMPACT.

Discover tools built for formulators, whether you're finding safer ingredients or evaluating
full formulations.

Why move beyond lists?

Stop Chasing the Next Ban

Prove It’s Safer

Replace with Purpose

Two Tools. One Mission: Safer Formulations

Goal: Find safer chemical ingredients

Key Features:

  • Browse safer ingredients by application (e.g., electronics, general-purpose)

  • Filter by function and hazard score

  • Download CHA documentation

Goal: Evaluate and improve full formulations

Key Features:

  • Screen full formulations against hazard criteria

  • Flag areas of concern (e.g., skin sensitizers, CMRs)

  • Pre-screen for alignment with IPC-1402 or brand-specific benchmarks

Resources to Support Your CleanScreen Journey

We offer two essential resources to help you use the CleanScreen Free Screening App, available in: English and 中文翻译版 (Chinese translation):

  • Getting Started User Guide – Step-by-step walkthrough of CleanScreen features

  • Demo Video – A visual overview of how to use the app

Choose your preferred format and language below:

Built Around the Way You Work

Whether you're starting with ingredients or managing a product line, our tools integrate with your workflow.

  • Communicate Safety to Customers: Use the reporting function to share human and environmental safety information.

  • Protect Confidential Business Information: 

    • Option to redact chemical names for confidentiality.

    • Generalize Formulation Details with concentration ranges 

  • Provide Hazard Transparency: Customer have assurance of safety even if formulation information is redacted

  • Self-Declare IPC-1402 Conformance: Showcase compliance with the standard

Backed by Science. Built for Use.

  • Verified Chemical Hazard Assessments (CHAs) 

  • Based on global standards 

  • Peer-reviewed by toxicologists 

  • Easy-to-interpret roll-up scores

  • Continuously reviewed and updated 

Link: Learn more about Chemical Hazard Assessments (CHAs)

What makes a Safer Cleaner?

PRE-SCREENING

CleanScreen was created to accelerate the availability of safer cleaners and degreasers used in electronics assembly. 

CleanScreen is powered by ChemFORWARD’s chemical optimization platform, a shared repository of comprehensive chemical hazard data created by toxicologists who use a globally recognized methodology to classify 24 human and environmental endpoints for each chemical. All data is subject to peer review and continuous improvement. This trusted repository is the foundation for the formulation screening and the optimization tools.

The formulation screening process was strategically designed to help formulators, brands, and manufacturers stay ahead of regulations, ensure human and environmental safety, and build trust through third-party verified transparency.

Access to the CleanScreen App is free for formulators and contract manufacturers to rapidly screen and optimize their products. 

CERTIFICATIONS

Clean Production Action recently released GreenScreen Certified,™ for Cleaners & Degreasers in Manufacturing to promote safer chemical use and innovation in the electronics sector and beyond. The certification was developed with Apple who for years has used GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals to assess and promote safer chemicals in their supply chain.

GreenScreen Certified provides criteria for assessing the safety of cleaners with three levels of certification: Silver, Gold, and Platinum. All levels require manufacturers to disclose all intentionally added chemicals in the products; avoid over 2,000 known chemicals of high concern and defined chemical classes (including PFAS and other organohalogens) listed in the Restricted Substances List; meet skin and eye irritation requirements; and perform analytic testing for substances of particular concern.

U.S. EPA Safer Choice  certifies products with safer chemical ingredients that meet the Safer Choice Standard.  Safer Choice evaluates all ingredients, regardless of percentage, against stringent human health and environmental criteria.  Only those chemicals that are the safest in their functional class are allowed.  A list of chemicals that meet Safer Choice criteria are available on EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredients List (SCIL) LINK . Safer Choice has been certifying primarily commercial and retail cleaning products for more than 15 years. 

Safer Choice and our third-party qualified profilers can help companies evaluate and improve their formulations to meet the Safer Choice criteria.

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry® evaluates chemical formulations in multiple product sectors, allowing brands and their suppliers to easily identify safer alternatives.  A ToxFMD® assessment (which stands for full materials disclosure) includes a comprehensive hazard evaluation of chemicals in a formulation.  Cleaning product formulations are also assessed for compliance with region-specific VOC standards, such Chinese VOC standards for cleaning agents.

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry® was created in 2014 to serve the textile and apparel industries and expanded in 2020 to assess cleaning products in the electronics sector. 

What makes a safer cleaner

 
 

Restricted Substances

ChemFORWARD provides Formulation Ingredient Intelligence Reports (FIIR) to allow you to pre-screen your formulations against certification requirements, and to optimize them with safer chemicals.

FIIRs leverage the ChemFORWARD shared repository of chemical hazard assessments (CHAs) to provide quick results.

 
 

CERTIFY YOUR PRODUCT

  • Select a certification program from the approved programs

  • Contact an Assessor for a cost estimate

  • Execute an NDA (if needed)

  • Provide ingredient disclosure per the program rules

  • The Assessor will evaluate your product and generate new CHAs (if needed)

 
 

AMPLIFY TO BRANDS AND CONTRACT MANUFACTURERS

Your certified product will be posted and promoted on the ChemWorks platform and pushed to our global partners.

Together we enable easy access to cleaners and degreasers that protect both people and the environment.

 

 INDUSTRY-LEADING STANDARDS

Upholding a shared responsibility to people and the planet begins with setting the highest standards. These qualified programs have created a strong foundation for evaluating safer chemistry, specifically focused on cleaners and degreasers.

All approved certification programs meet minimum technical requirements, rely on experienced toxicologists, have a publicly available science-based methodology, and are subject to quality assurance processes to contribute to the ChemWorks registry.

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