Target
revamps chemical use policy, asks suppliers to list
ingredients
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[January 26, 2017]
(Reuters) - Target Corp said it
would introduce a policy aimed at removing many harmful chemicals used
in its personal care, beauty and textiles products, and the retailer
would ensure suppliers disclose ingredients in certain products it sells
by 2020.
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The retailer also said it would invest $5 million in green
chemistry, which involves the reduction or elimination of hazardous
substances in chemicals, over the next five years. (http://bit.ly/2j5tZsL)
The company said it is seeking to remove perfluorinated chemicals
and potentially carcinogenic flame retardants from its textile
products by 2022, having already moved to abolish more than a 1,000
chemicals from some of its products in 2015.
The chemical strategy will include all Target-owned and national
brand products and operations, Chief Sustainability Officer Jennifer
Silberman said.
Target's announcement comes six months after Wal-Mart Stores Inc
said it was pushing suppliers to remove or restrict the use of eight
hazardous chemicals from some of the products it sells.
(Reporting by Abhijith Ganapavaram in Bengaluru; Editing by Martina
D'Couto)
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