Consumers & consumer products

To reduce the possible risks as much as possible and to ensure a high level of protection for consumers, dedicated consumer programs have been an integrated part of the danish chemical action plans of since year 2000.

The consumer programs increase knowledge on which problematic substances are used in consumer products and asses the health and/or environmental risk from using products containing problematic substances. As a result more than 190 investigations on chemicals in consumer products have been published since 2001.

Danish surveys on chemicals in consumer products

The Danish EPA is engaged in work to identify chemical substances in a number of consumer products. Find more than 100 surveys here.

Database of chemicals in consumer products
The Danish EPA has constructed a database of the Danish surveys of chemical substances in consumer products. In this database you can search for reports made on a specific substance or you can search in results within a given product type.