The search results provide information on different products and their ingredients or materials, as well as positive and negative impacts associated with them. Here are the details:
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Cleaning products: The EPA provides guidelines for identifying greener cleaning products. The guidelines include minimal presence of or exposure to potentially harmful chemicals, use of renewable resources, low VOC content, low flammability, and fragrance-free or meets EPA’s Safer Choice Criteria for Fragrances. The guidelines also recommend using products designed for use in cold water to conserve energy.
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Natural health products: The Quality of Natural Health Products Guide by Health Canada provides guidelines for the quality of natural health products. The guidelines include purity standards for microbial contaminants, chemical contaminants, mycotoxins, solvent residues, hormone testing of animal materials, enzyme preparations, incidental impurities, related substances, process impurities, pesticide residues, contaminants in marine oils, and antibiotic residues in bee products. The guidelines also recommend characterization of identity, purity, and stability of the crude material, characterization of live microorganisms, and process characterization for highly processed ingredients. The guidelines also suggest identifying specific chemicals (markers) that can be used to help manufacture a consistent product.
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Synthetic products: The American Chemical Society provides project-based lessons on natural resources and synthetic materials. The lessons include finding and analyzing information to describe that chemical processes are used to convert natural resources into synthetic materials and products. The lessons also include giving examples of how the production of synthetic products has impacts, both positive and negative, for society. The lessons recommend looking for information on what natural resources are used to make the synthetic product, what chemical processes are used to make the synthetic product, and what are the negative and positive impacts to society of making and using the synthetic product, compared to making and using a more natural product with a similar function.
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Food labels: The Better Health Channel provides information on food labels. The information includes what the food is, manufacturers details, nutrition information, ingredients, weights, and characterizing components. If an ingredient makes up less than 5% of the food, it does not have to be listed. The channel also provides a list of food additives and their numbering system. The channel recommends reading the ingredient list to choose healthier foods and limiting intake of foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugars, and alcohol.
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Trauma-informed care: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides a white paper on key ingredients for successful trauma-informed care implementation. The paper recommends creating a safe environment by keeping parking lots, common areas, bathrooms, entrances, and exits well-lit.
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Natural products: A review article in Nature discusses advances and opportunities in natural products in drug discovery. The article suggests that the natural product pool is enriched with ‘bioactive’ compounds covering a wider area of chemical space compared with typical synthetic...
