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'Material Health Requirements...The product is 100% characterized by its generic materials...A phase-out or optimization strategy has been developed for those materials withan X rating.'

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p.17

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'These following lists contain those chemicals and substances that are banned for use inCradle to Cradle CertifiedCM products'

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e.g. p.2,3

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'Individually detected chemicals must not be detectable (detection limits must be < 9.0µg/m3 for formaldehyde'

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p.48

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'If applying for levels above Basic, detection limits of <100 ppm are needed for ...flame retardants, and halogenated polymers'

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p.29, 112, 113

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'Materials in a product must be assessed using the ABC-X rating system...Rapidly degradable: Readily biodegradable based on OECD guidelines (301). In cases wherematerials are not generally known to be inherently biodegradable, testing may be required toreceive this designation. '

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p.35

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paraphrasing here because this is part of the assessment critiria table and doesn't lend itself to direct quotes: If a substance is listed as H400, H410, or H411 it recieves a 'RED' hazard for aquatic toxicity, which means that it must be phased out from applications with potential exposure to aquatic environments and is not allowed for such applications in GOLD level products.

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paraphrasing here because this is part of the assessment critiria table and doesn't lend itself to direct quotes: If a substance is listed as H300, H310, H330, H340, H341, H350, H351, H360, H361, H370, or H371 it recieves a 'RED' hazard in one of several human health endpoints which means that it must be phased out from applications with potential exposure to humans or the environments and is not allowed for such applications in GOLD level products.

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The thresholds for metals in BN materials are 2 ppm for cadmium, 90 ppm for lead, 100 ppm for chromium, 1 ppm for mercury, and 10 ppm for arsenic.', 'Materials subject to analytical testing are those containing recycled content from undefined sources (i.e., most post-consumer sources) for which full chemical ingredient data cannot be gathered and/or contamination is suspected. At a minimum, testing is to be done as described in Section 3.3.1 to determine the absence of Banned List chemicals above the allowable thresholds.', 'For polymers, the residual monomer concentrations must be reported in cases where the monomers are ‘x’ assessed or on the Banned Lists (e.g., PFOA and PFOS concentrations must be reported for materials containing PTFE). Analytical testing to determine the monomer concentration in the material is required if the monomer concentration cannot be obtained from existing information.'

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'All process chemicals have been assessed and none have been assessed as X.'

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p.17

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'All process chemicals have been assessed and none have been assessed as X.'

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p.17

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'All process chemicals have been assessed and none have been assessed as X.'

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p.17

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'A facility-wide water audit is completed...The intent of this requirement is to assist manufacturers with understanding the amount of waterused to manufacture the product and identifying opportunities for reduction in use.'

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p.70

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'All water leaving the manufacturing facility meets drinking water quality standards.'

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p.75

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'Conduct a facility-wide water audit that includes the following information:...Total consumption per year due to evaporation and/or incorporation into the product.Consumption = Total Withdrawals – Total Discharge (include units/year) '

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p.70

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'All water leaving the manufacturing facility meets drinking water quality standards.'

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p.75

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'All water leaving the manufacturing facility meets drinking water quality standards.'

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p.75

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guidance for assessment of biological materials will be published in the coming weeks and will include clarificaitons and detailed description of current requirements for agrochemical testing by assessors

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The function each chemical or chemical mixture serves within the material or product (i.e., resin, main polymer, catalyst, antioxidant, UV stabilizer, pigment, impurity, etc.; note this information is useful to have when conducting assessments but is not required).' '...textile auxiliaries, paper bleaching agents, and plating chemistry are subject to review at any concentration level when the part these are relevant to is itself present at ≥0.01% in the product.'

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'The product is actively being recovered and cycled in a technical or biologicalmetabolism.'

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p.49

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'For the final manufacturing stage of the product, >100% of purchased electricity isrenewably sourced or offset with renewable energy projects...The embodied energy associated with the product from Cradle to Gate is characterized and quantified, and a strategy to optimize is developed.'

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p.54

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'This category of theprogram is intended to create incentives for industry to eliminate the concept of “waste” bydesigning products with materials that may be perpetually cycled'

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p.49

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'The product is actively being recovered and cycled in a technical or biological metabolism...The intent of this requirement is to ensure that manufacturers are actively recovering and recyclingthe product and thus working towards the goal of eliminating the concept of waste.

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p.51

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'The review for Material Health generates material assessment ratings based on the hazards ofchemicals in products and their relative routes of exposure during the intended (and highly likelyunintended) use and end-of-use product phases. The ultimate goal is for all products to bemanufactured using only those materials that have been optimized and do not contain any X orGrey assessed materials. '

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p,17

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'A significant focus of Cradle to Cradle® as a product design framework is to promote the creation of an optimized materials economy that eliminates the concept of “waste.”...TheProgram challenges companies to take more responsibility for creating the infrastructure andsystems necessary for recovering and recycling materials'

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p.49

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'The intent of this requirement is to challenge manufacturers to develop a strategy that not onlyincreases renewable energy use and reduces carbon emissions, but also achieves the ultimate goalof using > 100% renewable energy in the final manufacturing stages of the product.'

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p.57

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'The strategy must cover facility level energy use and direct on-site emissions for at least the final manufacturing stage of the product.'

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p.57

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'The manufacturer has not received a significant violation of their discharge permit related to the finalmanufacturing stage of the applicant product within the last two years...The following information must be provided to the assessor:...The required documentation to demonstrate regulatory compliance must be submitted with eachapplication for certification'

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p. 66

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'Material ingredient data must be collected to generate ABC-X assessments for each material in aproduct...The intent of this requirement is to assist a manufacturer with understanding the chemicals that arepresent in the product so that they may be assessed for their potential to adversely impact human orenvironmental health.'

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p. 31

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'The short-term actions for product development start with complete identification of the materials and chemicals that make up the product and process inorder to assess them for human and ecological impacts. '

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p.3