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With 85% of businesses creating sustainability initiatives, and consumers showing increased interest in environmental matters, environmentally conscious products are increasingly in demand. In fact, surveys show that a product's environmental impact is an important factor considered by consumers in making their buying decisions.

The EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) program parallels worldwide interest in environmental safety and sustainability. The purpose of this program is to help identify and develop environmentally safer products.

Once a product passes the specifications of that program, the EPA allows the display of the EPA Design for the Environment logo on the product. According to the EPA, this logo "allows the consumers to quickly identify and choose products that can help protect the environment and are safer for families."

In order to pass EPA DfE requirements, a product must undergo a rigorous review by the EPA DfE scientific review team. This team carefully screens each ingredient for any potential human health and environmental effects. The team reviews not only the ingredient, but its chemical structure, to see how it could impact the environment and people.

Only products that are made of the safest possible ingredients are eligible for approval. According to the EPA, "the DfE allows use of the logo only when a product is best in its class."

BioOne ® has passed the EPA DfE's rigorous scrutiny and therefore, proudly displays the EPA DfE logo in recognition of its positive effect on human health and the environment.

"EPA/DfE recognition does not constitute endorsement of this product.The Design for the Environment logo signifies that the formula for this product, as Osprey Biotechnics has represented it to the EPA, contains ingredients with more positive health and environmental characteristics than conventional products. EPA/DfE relies solely on Osprey Biotechnics, its integrity and good faith, for information on the composition, ingredients, and attributes of this product. EPA/DfE has not independently identified, i.e., via chemical or biological analysis, the ingredients in the product formula, nor evaluated any of Osprey Biotechnics' noningredient claims, including product performance. EPA/DfE expresses its judgment and professional opinion only as to the environmental and human health characteristics of the product, based on currently available information and scientific understanding."