General Product Safety Testing
Native’s Safety team works to ensure our ingredients, products, and packages are safe, compliant, and in-line with our sustainability vision.
Consumer product safety starts with the ingredients. Before we market a new product, we go beyond regulatory compliance to ensure each ingredient’s safety through a four-step, science-based process.
These evaluations precede the inclusion of any new ingredients in our products and are a mandatory part of our company’s product development process and begin during the early stages of a product’s design.
We first evaluate the potential for an ingredient to cause adverse effects using published and accepted scientific methods. We also consider susceptible populations such as children. These data are used to determine what levels of an ingredient are safe for humans and the environment, using conservative assumptions that are recommended by regulatory agencies and scientists around the world.
Native’s Safety team works to ensure our ingredients, products, and packages are safe, compliant, and in-line with our sustainability vision.
We then evaluate potential exposures for people and the environment, considering worst-case product use scenarios based on our understanding of how our products are actually used, as well as how they may reach the environment. Only products that are well within safe levels make it through our evaluation process. Finally, we also build into our assessments an understanding of the environmental aspects of the product's life cycle, from manufacturing through their use and disposal.