Before it’s too late
Case Medical has been a partner in the U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program for over a decade and that partnership has served our company well and contributed to our growth. Case Medical has joined with other companies, such as BASF, Colgate-Palmolive, and Seventh Generation to advocate for maintaining the EPA Safer Choice Program intact for future generations. While there is a lot of activity trimming the Federal budget, Safer Choice is one of the most cost-effective programs in our government that helps businesses grow and develop new products that are safer and cost effective. By certifying thousands of products that are safer, reduce waste, and ideal for standardization, consumers can be assured that what they are buying and using at home, in healthcare facilities, and in industry is the safest in their class. Safer Choice is on the chopping block, and we are asking for your support in keeping it alive.
Our experience with Safer Choice
As a medical device manufacturer we, at Case Medical, care about the health and well-being of healthcare workers, patients, and the communities in which we live. That is why we decided years ago to validate our instrument chemistries and cleaners for safety and effectiveness and use the EPA SCIL list of ingredients to formulate our products. While there is no mandate or requirement to do so, for cleaning chemistries, we felt at the time that if we were going to introduce a product for patient care, specifically for decontaminating surgical devices, we should do so based upon science and safety and validate them.
Safer Choice may be gone tomorrow
According to Bloomberg Law: Federal agencies, including the EPA, have until March 13 to submit the first of two staff and office retention and reorganization plans to the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management to comply with their memo implementing President Donald Trump’s Feb. 11 workforce optimization Executive Order. The order prioritized staff reductions in “offices that perform functions not mandated by statute or other law.”
Safer Choice, and the safer chemical ingredients list it offers, have been essential to Case Medical—which makes containers, medical cleaning, and other health care supplies—and is designed to safeguard the company’s workers, hospital personnel that handle the instruments and disinfectants, and patients, said CEO Marcia Frieze. The marketplace is filled with so many certification programs that “you can almost buy a label to say your product is safe,” Frieze said when interviewed by Bloomberg Law. By contrast, the publicly available scientific criteria EPA’s program uses and its requirement that independent third parties verify product claims helps Case give customers confidence its products are less harmful without compromising quality or performance, she said.
Safer Choice needs our support and yours
Consider the future for your children and grandchildren and what the label means. “In a marketplace that’s flooded with green claims, Safer Choice stands out as providing an independently, verified program that lets customers understand the safety behind products they buy”, said Ashley Orgain, chief impact officer at Unilever’s Seventh Generation. David Levine, founder of The American Sustainable Business Network, said recently “It’s also cost-effective, offering a bang for the buck that far outweighs the program’s annual budget of about $4 million”. If you agree that the Safer Choice program is critical for patient safety, for your family, and for the environment, don’t wait until it is gone to write your congress person and express your support of the program before it is too late.
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