Inks and Chemicals — Environmental Challenges

"From a health and safety standpoint, knowing and understanding changing laws that affect how chemical constituents of our products must be safely handled by both our employees and our customers is challenging," Ness says. "Many commonly used chemicals have recently been added to state or federal lists that designate them as potentially harmful to human health. When material ingredients are designated harmful to human health, they must be replaced by safer materials or, if that is not feasible, employees must be trained about their possible risks so that those risks can be mitigated with protective personal equipment. Customers must also be informed of these material designations in their product labels or MSDSs so that their employees can be adequately protected.