The Clorox Company was named a 2021 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award winner for outstanding achievement in the manufacturing of products with ingredients that are safer for families, pets, workplaces, communities, and the environment. This is the company’s fourth time receiving this award in the formulation/product manufacturing award category.

Safer Choice helps consumers and organizations find products that perform and are made with safer ingredients. To qualify for the Safer Choice label, a product must meet EPA’s Safer Choice Standard, which includes stringent human and environmental health criteria. Currently, 27 Clorox products carry the Safer Choice label, an increase from 19 products in 2018. Certified products include Clorox Compostable Wipes and the Real Simple product line. 

“Clorox is a health and wellness company at heart, so making products that are safer for people and the planet is a priority for us. It matters to our consumers and it’s the right thing to do,” says Lisa Pankiewicz, vice president, Global Stewardship – R&D for Clorox. “We’re proud to be recognized as a leader in a program that helps protect people’s health and the environment.” 

Product stewardship is one of the environmental, social, governance (ESG) goals embedded in Clorox’s corporate strategy, called IGNITE. Clorox’s ESG goals are focused on strategic pillars where the company can have the greatest impact:

• Healthy Lives: Improving people’s health and well-being through initiatives such as promoting employee safety, advancing product stewardship and innovating wellness products
• Clean World: Fighting climate change and eliminating plastic & other waste
• Thriving Communities: Investing in employees and communities to contribute to a more equitable world

As part of the Healthy Lives pillar, Clorox’s product stewardship efforts build on a track record of accomplishments, including becoming the first major consumer packaged goods company to voluntarily disclose ingredients in U.S. and Canadian retail and professional cleaning, disinfecting and laundry products over a decade ago.

Clorox has played an active role in the Safer Choice program and its predecessor program, Design for the Environment, since 2007. Since that time, Clorox has collaborated with the EPA to advocate and support the program. The company was previously recognized as a Safer Choice Partner of the Year in 2016, 2017 and 2020.