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Product Safety
Q: Is it safe to mix cleaning products together?
A: Never mix cleaning products, as the ingredients can react to form a toxic gas. It’s important to always use products as directed on the…
The ACI Elva Walker Spillane Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and service to ACI and the cleaning products or oleochemical industries. Award recipients are honored at ACI's Annual Meeting & Industry Convention.Award Recipients2025 - Dr. Wayne Ashton2024 - Dr. David Macinga2023 - Steve Christenson2022 - Steve Tanner2020 - Rob…
Whether you have an infant, toddler or preschooler at home, it’s important to understand cleaning priorities and practices as kids crawl, toddle and run. Focus cleaning efforts on key places for health and wellbeing and stay ahead of cleaning safety precautions.
Cleaning for Health
Parents with infants do, on average, a load of laundry a day. Parents with toddlers know anything within reach will be put in their mouths…
Washington, D.C. – November 13, 2018 – On average, Americans spend approximately six hours per week cleaning their homes, with more than a quarter (28 percent) spending over seven hours straightening up. However, roughly a third of us are concerned if it’s enough and if we’re cleaning correctly, according to survey results compiled by the American Cleaning Institute.
2018 ACI National …
The ACI Spark Summit is new — and it’s different by design. Built specifically for early- to mid-career professionals in the cleaning products industry, it brings together rising managers and subject matter experts for a day and a half of learning, collaboration, and practical insight in an environment intentionally unlike any other ACI event. Small groups. Direct engagement. Conversations that connect your day-to-day work to…
SC Johnson
Across the cleaning product supply chain, companies have increased production, adapted manufacturing lines, donated money and resources, and taken extra measures to protect their employees. Here is one such story from SC Johnson. See our full COVID-19 Impact Report for more.
When Patrick Harris, Senior Director, R&D at SC Johnson, first sent out a note asking for volunteers to make hand…
The 2026 ACI Annual Meeting & Industry Convention is underway. Make sure you check out the first issue of ACI’s Convention News, published by Chemical Week, at the following link:https://chemweek.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=860257&p=1&view=issueViewerYou can also read Chemical Week’s comprehensive coverage of cleaning product supply chain and chemical …
Cleaning Products
Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)
2012
Here's what the cleaning product supply chain is saying about ingredient communication:
"Consumer education is a key part of achieving empowerment through the “right to understand” principle. Education efforts are designed to reach people where they are and creates awareness of the tools and information available."
- Kristin Cordz, Market Actives, LLC, Chair of ACI's…
Article published in Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementNew research co-authored by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) presents a spatially referenced environmental exposure model for down-the-drain substance emissions for Europe. The model covers the 27 European Union member states, as well as Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and builds upon the global modeling framework that leverages the well-established iSTREEM model used in…