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American Cleaning Institute offers insights on SBTi Corporate Net-Zero StandardDecember 15, 2025 – The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) is helping to enable the cleaning product industry’s continued progress in sustainability by providing input on the latest draft of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero Standard.The SBTi is updating its Net-Zero Standard to reflect the latest climate science…
American Cleaning Institute provides comments on key global benchmark for climate action The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) submitted comments to Science Based Targets (SBTi) draft Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2, a global benchmark for businesses committed to ambitious climate action. SBTi is revising this standard to support more companies setting targets and making corporate climate action more effective, to accelerate the pace of…
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Board of Directors elected three new members to its ranks at its virtual 2021 Mid-Year Meeting.
The new Directors include:
Zoë Baldwin, General Manager – Base Chemicals Americas, Shell Chemical LP
Diego Ruiz, Vice President – Global Government Relations, SC Johnson
Joseph Schwalbach, Vice President – Downstream Derivatives, Indorama Ventures Integrated Oxides and Derivatives
The executives were elected…
Nouryon’s Suzanne Carroll Elected as Chair, P&G’s Erik Roberts to Serve as Vice ChairExecutives from BASF, Clorox, Reckitt and Sasol Elected as DirectorsSuzanne Carroll, Senior Vice President, Consumer and Life Sciences, Nouryon, is the newly elected Chair of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Board of Directors, joined by Erik Roberts, Senior Vice President, Global F&HC Purchasing and P&G Chemicals, Procter & Gamble, as ACI Board Vice Chair.…
Findings provide a baseline for robust long-term assessment of 1,4-dioxane in commercial products
Article published in Journal of Surfactants and Detergents
A new study co-authored by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) assesses the methodologies to measure a manufacturing byproduct that’s subject to restrictive rules in jurisdictions like New York State.
Legislators there passed a law in 2020 that limits the concentration of 1,4-dioxane to parts-per-…
If you or your child have allergies or asthma, you already know that many things can bring on, or "trigger," an asthma flare or episode. Some things that trigger asthma attacks are called allergens. Some people get symptoms from only one allergen - like dust mites. For other people, more than one kind of allergen can trigger an episode.
Tobacco smoke is an asthma trigger. Avoid smoking in a home where a person with asthma lives.
The…
Longtime Industry Researcher and Scientist Honored at 91st American Cleaning Institute Convention
Recognized as "Strong Leader and Champion" for ACI
Washington, D.C. – January 26, 2017 – Dale Steichen, a recognized cleaning products industry researcher and scientist for more than three decades, is the 2017 recipient of the American Cleaning Institute’s (ACI) Elva Walker Spillane Distinguished Service Award.
The honor was presented…
Kitchen KnivesA rule of thumb in safe food preparation is to be sure you don’t cut raw meat, poultry or fish on the same surface without thoroughly cleaning it between uses. The same is true for your knife. Wash your knife with dish soap and hot water after each use. Rinse with clear water. Air-dry or pat dry with clean paper towels.Typically you should wash hollow-handled knives by handHandle kitchen knives carefully by their handles; don’t pile them into the sink or dishpan,…
Originally posted May 2021, updated March 2023
Industry strives to reach net zero global emissions by 2050
ACI drives members toward climate action
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) is challenging companies in the cleaning products industry and supporting supply chain to align their corporate climate strategy and targets with the 1.5°C ambition, which strives to reach net-zero global emissions by 2050. Nineteen ACI members have already stepped up to…
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) issued the following statement by Richard Sedlak, Executive Vice President, Technical & International Affairs, on a final rule by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) governing consumer hand sanitizer products and ingredients:
"Hand sanitizers are a critical part of healthy hand hygiene routines for millions of people every single day. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend using alcohol…