TCO Certified Accepted Substance List adds ChemFORWARD assessments

TCO Certified Accepted Substance List

TCO Certified, the world-leading sustainability certification for IT products, now accepts assessments from ChemFORWARD, a major provider of chemical hazard assessments, as an alternative chemical assessment tool to further improve the safety and environmental impact of IT products.

Tens of thousands of chemicals are in use globally today. Very few have been studied for their impact on human health or the environment. To accelerate the shift to safer alternatives, the ground-breaking TCO Certified Accepted Substance List presents substances that are proven to be a safer choice. 

The addition of ChemFORWARD assessments to TCO Certified Accepted Substance List will further help accelerate the use of safer chemicals in electronics. This strengthens efforts to make electronics more sustainable and aligns with TCO Certified’s mission of improving the safety and environmental impact of the technology industry.

“The addition of ChemFORWARD and their extensive database of assessed chemicals enables us to continue to expand TCO Certified Accepted Substance List to include even more chemical categories. This will make it easier to provide safer alternatives assessed in an equally comprehensive and transparent way. TCO Certified will continue to show that identifying safer alternatives as part of product design and material selection process is the only viable way toward a sustainable life cycle for IT products,” says Stephen Fuller, expert on hazardous substances at TCO Development, the organization behind TCO Certified.

Until now, TCO Certified Accepted Substance List has relied on the GreenScreen hazard framework to provide independent assessments for flame retardants, plasticizers, stabilizers and process chemicals. This collaboration will continue.  

Read more about TCO Certified Accepted Substance List and safer substances here.