Amway Home acquires high reputation Safer Choice Award from US

The Safer Choice Award proves that Amway products are the safer choice among comparable products

The “Amway’s Homecare Products & Safer Choice Certificate Conference” took place at GEM Centre in Ho Chi Minh City with the participation of leading experts and doctors, such as Jim S. Pell–specialist in Product Development and Technology Transference at Amway US Corporation, and Ngo Cao Lam–dean of the Environmental Health Department of Preventive Medicine Centre of Ho Chi Minh City.

Earning a safer choice label is the result of an extremely strict process in which Amway’s products had to improve tremendously to meet EPA requirements. Notably, the ingredients must be safe for human use and the environment with volatile organic compounds that reduce air pollution and the risk of respiratory disease. Additionally, products must contain highly efficient liquid concentrate for reducing water and electricity consumption, waste, and be more economical. Besides, safe pH levels minimise skin irritation and eye injury.

Moreover, EPA must review ingredients against agency standards for human and environmental safety. They also review outside suppliers and audit manufacturing sites. Even after receiving the designation, EPA will continue to verify that Amway and partners adhere to the standards.

“I think the message needs to be about Amway’s historical commitment to providing safer and more environmentally-sensitive homecare products to our customer. Amway began its commitment to safer products in 1959 with the introduction of L.O.C. (liquid organic concentrate)—one of the first multi-purpose biodegradable household products," scientist Jim S. Pell, specialist in R&D and Technology Transference of Amway US Corporation, said at the event. "This is a commitment we are now reinforcing globally with the launch of the safer choice certification. Safer choice is a partnership with the US Environmental Protection Agency which assures that our products are safer for them, their families, and the environment without sacrificing quality or performance.”

The Safer Choice Award has a total of five categories and Amway Home was rewarded in the creator or producer category. The Safer Choice label signifies that the product’s formula, as Amway has represented it to the EPA, contains ingredients with more positive human health and environmental characteristics than conventional products of the same type.

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