PRIORITY CHEMICAL LIST
Policy Number BBBPO-0017
Implementation 2019 Revision Date:
Date: Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) are committed to providing customers with safe, high quality products. To that end, the Company is issuing the below Priority Chemical List, which is a subset of its Restricted Substances List (“RSL”), to further reduce the use of certain chemicals of concern in household cleaning, personal care, and cosmetic products. In addition, the Company is responding to customers’ growing interest in ingredient disclosures by committing to ingredient transparency in certain private label products.
It is the Company’s expectation that vendors of all household cleaning, personal care, and cosmetic products will remove, or at minimum, reduce the use of Priority Chemicals in their products, including parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde donors, NPEs, Toluene, and Triclosan. In moving to eliminate these chemicals from formulations, the Company expects suppliers to select ingredients identified as Safer Chemicals by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice program, or to use EPA Safer Choice criteria or the safer alternatives Marketplace to evaluate and select safe substitutions. See https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients. The Company also encourages all vendors of household cleaning, personal care, and cosmetic products to include ingredient disclosures on product packaging.
The Company is particularly committed to eliminating Priority Chemicals from private label baby personal care products. The Company is working collaboratively with suppliers to evaluate private label baby personal care products and to reformulate where necessary to eliminate intentionally added Priority Chemicals from those products, including in fragrances, by the end of 2020. In addition, the Company will strive for ingredient disclosure on private label baby personal care products both on-line and on product packaging beginning in 2020.
The Company will continue to engage with various stakeholders and industry partners to stay abreast of scientific developments and industry best practices regarding chemicals of concern. Over time, the Company will work towards expanding the product categories and brands covered by the Priority Chemical List and ingredient disclosure requirements.
Family Chemical Name CAS# Parabens Isobutylparaben 4247-02-3 Parabens Ethyl paraben 120-47-8 Parabens sodium propyl paraben 35285-69-9 Parabens sodium butyl paraben 36457-20-2 Parabens potassium butylparaben 38566-94-8 Parabens Isopropylparaben 4191-73-5 Parabens potassium propyl paraben 84930-16-5 Parabens Propylparaben 94-13-3 Parabens Butylparaben 94-26-8 Parabens Methyl Paraben 99-76-3 Parabens Benzoic acid, p hydroxy 99-96-7 Phthalates Dioctyl Phthalate (DEHP) 117-84-0 Phthalates Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DNOP) 117-81-7 Phthalates Dipentyl phthalate (DPENP) 131-18-0
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PRIORITY CHEMICAL LIST
Policy Number BBBPO-0017
Implementation 2019 Revision Date:
Date: Phthalates Diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) 26761-40-0 Phthalates Diisononyl Phthalate (DINP) 28553-12-0 Phthalates Dicyclohexyl Phthalate (DCHP) 84-61-7 Phthalates Diethyl phthalate (DEP) 84-66-2 Phthalates Diisobutyl Phthalate (DIBP) 84-69-5 Phthalates Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) 84-74-2 Phthalates di(N-hexyl) phthalate (DnHP) 84-75-3 Phthalates Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) 85-68-7 Formaldehyde-Donors Polyoxymethylene melamine 9003-08-1 Formaldehyde-Donors Polyoxymethylene Urea 9011-05-6 Formaldehyde-Donors Methenamine 100-97-0 Formaldehyde-Donors Glyoxal 107-22-2 Formaldehyde-Donors Methylal 109-87-5 Formaldehyde-Donors Poly(p-toluenesulfonamide-co-formaldehyde) -PTSAF 25035-71-6 Formaldehyde-Donors 5-Bromo-5-Nitro-1,3-Dioxane 30007-47-7 Formaldehyde-Donors Paraformaldehyde 30525-89-4 Formaldehyde-Donors Imidazolidinyl Urea 39236-46-9 Formaldehyde-Donors Quaternium -15 4080-31-3 Formaldehyde-Donors Methanediol 463-57-0 Formaldehyde-Donors Formaldehyde 50-00-0 Formaldehyde-Donors Quaternium 15 51229-78-8 Formaldehyde-Donors Bronopol 52-51-7 Formaldehyde-Donors DMDM hydantoin 6440-58-0 Formaldehyde-Donors Urea, polymer with formaldehyde, isobutylated 68002-18-6 Formaldehyde-Donors sodium hydroxymethylglycinate 70161-44-3 Formaldehyde-Donors Diazolidinylurea 78491-02-8 NPEs 2-(p-Nonylphenoxy) ethanol 104-35-8 NPEs 4-Nonoxynol 104-40-5 NPEs Isononylphenol (mixed isomers) 11066-49-2 NPEs 4-Nonylphenol, ethoxylated 127087-87-0 NPEs 2-Nonyphenol 136-83-4 NPEs 3-Nonoxynol 139-84-4 NPEs 4-tert-Octylphenol 140-66-9 NPEs Nonoxynol-9 14409-72-4 NPEs 4-T-Nonylphenol Diethoxylate 156609-10-8 Page | 2
PRIORITY CHEMICAL LIST
Policy Number BBBPO-0017
Implementation 2019 Revision Date:
Date: NPEs Ethanol, 2-[2-(4-nonylphenoxy)ethoxy] 20427-84-3 NPEs Nonylphenol 25154-52-3 NPEs Polyoxyethylene Nonylphenyl Ether 26027-38-3 NPEs P-Isononylphenol 26543-97-5 NPE's Nonoxynol 9 26571-11-9 NPEs Ethanol, 2-[2-(nonylphenoxy)ethoxy]- 27176-93-8 NPEs Nonoxynol-8 27177-05-5 NPEs Nonylphenol nona(oxyethylene)ethanol 27177-08-8 NPEs o-isononylphenol 27938-31-4 NPEs Nonoxynol-7 27942-27-4 NPEs Nonoxynol-1 27986-36-3 NPEs 1-Ethoxy-3-nonylbenzene 28679-13-2 NPEs P-(1,1-Dimethylheptyl)Phenol 30784-30-6 NPEs 2-[2-[2-[2-[2-[2-(4- 34166-38-6 NONYLPHENOXY)ETHOXY]ETHOXY]ETHOXY]ETHOXY]ETHOXY]ETH ANOL NPEs Poly(oxy 1,2 ethanediyl), a (isononylphenyl) w hydroxy 37205-87-1
NPEs Oxirane, methyl-, polymer with oxirane, mono(nonylphenyl) ether 37251-69-7 NPEs Nonylphenoxypoly(ethyleneoxy) ethyl phosphate, sodium salt 37340-60-6
NPEs Poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), alpha-(nonylphenyl)-omega- hydroxy-, 51811-79-1 phosphate NPEs Nonyl phenol ethoxylate blend 63496-57-1 Nonylphenol ethoxylate 68412-53-3 NPEs Nonylphenol, branched, ethoxylated 68412-54-4 NPEs Nonylphenol, branched, ethoxylated 68987-90-6 NPEs Nonoxynol-4 7311-27-5 NPEs 4-nonylphenol (branched) 84852-15-3 NPEs nonoxynol 10 9016-45-9 NPEs Polyethyleneglycol nonylphenyl ether, ammonium salt 9051-57-4 MISC Triclocarban 101-20-2 MISC Toluene 108-88-3 MISC Benzophenone-2 131-55-5 MISC Triclosan 3380-34-5
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