Expert Analysis: Transparency - The Best Way to Understand Your Products - Part 3

For the final post of our transparency series, we delve into how and why the building products and cleaning products industries embrace transparency reporting for their products. Please refer to Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series for more information on transparency.  

In this post we explore the history and motivations behind transparency reporting and show how these industries have found success. Transparency reporting occurs when manufacturers disclose what is in their products, including chemical identities, down to very specific detail. Manufacturers who do transparency reporting benefit from fewer customer requests, increased customer confidence, reduced regulatory risk and, in most cases, safer products. Our previous blog posts go into detail on the drivers and value of transparency and the supplier data that drives it – usually called Full Material Disclosure (FMD). This article will explain how transparency reporting is applied in two very different industries and how it has provided the foundation for other industries to follow.  

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