Product Stewardship
Through the Product Stewardship program, Life Technologies strives to continuously assess and improve the healtheffects, safety, and environmental impact of our products, processes, and services throughout the product life cycle.We go beyond compliance, incorporating Design-for-Environment principles from ideation to end-of-life.
Our Product Stewardship program is divided into three sections:
Design for Environment (DfE) - Innovative techniques and strategies that minimize environmental impact of products and processes by using less hazardous materials and packaging, resulting in less pollution and less waste.
Product Safety - addresses health and safety concerns not mitigated by DfE initiatives. Hazards of Life Technologies products are communicated through labeling and product literature. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) are generated in multiple languages.
Product Compliance - ensures that our products and materials can be sold and distributed globally, meeting chemical control laws and international requirements for movement of reagents. All new instruments meet regulations restricting hazardous substances and end-of-life directives.
Design for the Environment
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Ideation We aim to build energy-efficient instruments from the outset, developing alternative solutions that eliminate or minimize exposure to hazardous materials, and incorporating concepts of source reduction, reuse, and recycling into product design. |
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Sourcing We consider the environmental, health, and safety and regulatory impacts in material selection, asking questions such as: Can we use recycled materials? Can the materials be sourced from renewable resources? Can we source locally? |
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Manufacturing Manufacturing processes should utilize the least hazardous and smallest amounts of chemicals, energy, water, and other natural resources. We aim for zero emissions and efficient production in the factory of the future. |
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Distribution Packaging and transport of products have significant cost and environmental impact. Designing products for ambient shipment vs. cold chain is one way to mitigate costs and increase customer satisfaction. |
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Use Customers prefer to work with materials that minimize their exposure to hazardous materials. They also look for products that help achieve their facility’s environmental targets (e.g., energy efficiency, reduced waste, less consumption of water and other natural resources). |
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End-of-Life We are expanding our programs to encourage reuse of instruments at end-of-life. |
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Green Chemistry
Life Technology embraces chemistry as an environmental solution through eliminating the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products.
Goal: Apply green chemistry principles to decrease dangerous goods transportation by 25%
Examples of Life Technologies’ application of green chemistry principles include:
- Reformulating the Purelink™ Quick Gel Extraction Kit, making it non-hazardous for transport.
- Introducing the SYBR® Safe DNA Gel Stain as a non-toxic, non-mutagenic alternative to ethidium bromide (a chemical agent that changes the genetic material).
- Offering SimplyBlue™ SafeStain for protein research, which is non-flammable, non-toxic and non-corrosive. The competing product is corrosive and must be used with flammable and toxic solvents.
Purelink™
Quick Gel Extraction Kit
SYBR®
Safe DNA Gel Stain
Simply Blue™
SafeStain for Protein Research
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