This report contains a survey of ingredients in deter-gents on the Danish market during the period 2001-2018, as well as a health and environmental assess-ment of selected ingredients. The report addresses the following three main categories of detergents; laundry detergents, dishwashing detergents and all-purpose detergents, in which the following functional groups in the three main categories are included: surfactants, complexing agents, bleaching agents, enzymes, fra-grances, as well as other ingredients in the individual main categories.
The report is supplement to the Environmental Project No. 615 (2001); a comprehensive environmental and health safety assessment on substances in household detergents and cosmetic detergent products.
The environmental and health assessment included selected substances and group of substances priori-tized to supplement the report from 2001. The new functional groups were selected: antifoaming agents, represented by a group of siloxanes; the dye transfer inhibitors, represented by the group of polyvinylpyrrol-idone polymers; enzyme stabiliser ((4-formylphenyl) boronic acid); and enzyme activator (manganese-II-oxalate dehydrate). Furthermore, assessments were performed for the new complexing agents including: MGDA, sodium carboxymethyl inulin, polyethylene imine, and sodium iminodisuccinate.
Danish summary
Denne rapport indeholder en kortlægning af indholdsstoffer i vaske- og rengøringsmidler på det danske marked i perioden 2001-2018, samt en sundheds- og miljøvurdering af udvalgte indholdsstoffer. Rapporten behandler følgende tre hovedkategorier af vaske- og rengøringsmidler: vaskemidler, opvaskemidler og universelle produkter, hvorunder følgende funktions-grupper i de tre hovedkategorier er behandlet: overfladeaktive stoffer, kompleksdannende midler, blegemidler, enzymer, parfume/duftstoffer, samt andre indholds-stoffer i de enkelte hovedkategorier
Rapporten skal ses som et tillæg til Miljøstyrelsens miljøprojekt nr. 615 (2001); en rapport indeholdende en omfattende miljø og sundhedsvurdering af daværende indholdsstoffer i vaske- og rengøringsmidler.