EPA Safer Choice Certified Products Database

The federal answer to one question: which cleaning and chemical products cleared a ingredient-safety standard set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Safer Choice program, rather than self-declared by whoever printed the label.

The register holds about 4,968 entries - 4,858 Safer Choice certifications and 110 legacy Design for Environment (DfE) records - describing roughly 1,506 distinct product names from 331 partner companies across around 50 product types. The household shelf is the core of it - all-purpose cleaners, degreasers, dish soaps, hand soaps, laundry detergents, toilet bowl cleaners, window and glass cleaners, pet care products - and it runs through commercial and industrial lines such as aircraft cleaning products, medical instrument cleaners and parts washers. Every row names the product, its company, its sector, whether it is verified fragrance-free, whether it is marketed for outdoor use, and whether the partner is current on the yearly review.

One structural quirk matters before you build anything on top: EPA notes the table entry count exceeds the number of distinct certified products, because a product appears once per sector/product-type combination. Deduplicate on product name and you get 1,506; keep the listings and you preserve the merchandising grain. Both are legitimate tables - they just answer different questions.

A verified row pulled during the August 2026 research pass, exactly as it lands in your warehouse - one row per certified product per sector listing:

program              : DfE
category             : Consumer Product
sector               : All-Purpose Cleaners
upcs                 : 19200850179
product_name         : Lysol Brand Kills 99.9% of Viruses & Bacteria Power & Free
                       Multi-purpose Cleaner with Hydrogen Peroxide Citrus Sparkle Scent
company_name         : Reckitt Benckiser LLC
city                 : Parsippany
state                : New Jersey
partner_since        : 2009
company_in_good_standing : True

Read it as a certificate, not an advertisement: a specific branded formulation, tied to a named corporate entity at a Parsippany, New Jersey address, holding a partnership that dates to 2009 and current on its yearly review as of the pull. The program field is where history lives - this row carries legacy DfE, while newer entries read Safer Choice, so cohort analysis across the two eras needs no external join.

Multiply that row out and you get the shape of the whole register: ~4,968 entries, 4,858 Safer Choice against 110 DfE, ~1,506 distinct products across 331 companies, with web-facing views exposing six columns (Product Name | Company | Sector | Type | Outdoor Use | Fragrance Free) where the delivered table keeps every field below.

Fourteen fields make up the dictionary, definitions verified against the source card during the August 2026 research pass - confidence grade: verified, not inferred. They divide into three jobs:

• Identity: program, category, sector and product_name say what was certified and under which label; upcs, gtins and mpns key the same product into retail scan files, e-commerce catalogs and parts systems without any fuzzy matching.

• Who stands behind it: company_name, city and state resolve the certifying partner to a place; partner_since gives tenure, running back to the 1990s-era DfE program; company_in_good_standing marks whether the partner is current on its yearly review - the machine-readable equivalent of the dagger the web page prints beside lapsed firms.

• Claims as flags: fragrance_free and outdoor_use turn two of the most-marketed claims in household products into booleans verified against specific program criteria documents, so screens run on evidence instead of adjectives.

The full dictionary follows in tabular form. A Spanish-language variant of the register exists alongside the English one, and both ship with additional fields documented on request.

Geography - the United States-certified product market. The standard is administered federally, company addresses resolve across US states, and the register is the definitive American answer to 'which products cleared.'

Temporal - a current-state certification list, refreshed with the program database; the page footer read 'Last updated on August 18, 2026' at research time. History rides in the rows themselves: partner_since years reach back to the 1990s-era DfE program, so tenure and cohort analysis span three decades even though the list describes today's certifications.

Granularity - one row per certified product per sector/product-type listing. That is finer than one row per product (the ~50 types multiply multi-sector products) and coarser than one row per SKU (though UPC and GTIN columns bridge toward unit level when you need them).

Set against the catalog - 1,744 datasets averaging a quality score of 7.81 - this record is the only 10/10 in the household-products slice: complete field documentation, verified examples and a granularity that matches how procurement actually buys.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

• Procurement and sustainability teams screen candidate products before a contract goes out: is the janitorial bid actually certified, under which program label, and is the vendor still in good standing? A filter on program plus company_in_good_standing answers what a slide deck cannot.

• Competitive-intel and category managers track rival certification claims over time - which competitors hold Safer Choice status, in which of the ~50 product types, and since when (partner_since).

• E-commerce and retail-media teams enrich catalogs with verified attributes: UPC and GTIN keys join certified status straight onto SKU-level listings, and the fragrance-free and outdoor-use flags become filterable site facets backed by evidence.

• ESG and greenwashing auditors reconcile a brand's public 'eco-friendly' positioning against the register - either the product is a certified row, or the claim has to stand on something else.

• Exposure and risk researchers treat the certified-product universe as the denominator for safer-formulation studies, pairing it with ingredient-level chemistry records from EPA CPDat.

Procurement and EHS leads get the screening table their policy documents already assume exists - certification status, partner standing and claim flags in one queryable panel. Competitive-intel product teams get a longitudinal map of who certified what and when, which turns 'the market is going green' into a count by company and year. Data scientists and ML engineers get a clean, stable, boolean-labeled corpus of certified products keyed by UPC and GTIN - useful training data for claim-verification models. E-commerce operators get attribute enrichment that survives a compliance review. Journalists and academics get a citable federal registry behind every sentence about safer cleaning products - see journalists and academics use cases.

Three notes worth having upfront.

First, entries are not products. The ~4,968 figure counts listings, and EPA says so itself: a product listed in multiple sectors appears once per combination. Decide before your first query whether your unit of analysis is the listing (~4,968), the product (~1,506 distinct names) or the company (331) - joins built on the wrong grain double-count silently.

Second, two program labels share one schema. Rows carry either Safer Choice or legacy Design for Environment (110 of them); if your analysis means 'currently certified under the modern standard,' filter on program first, then check company_in_good_standing, because the register deliberately keeps partners whose yearly review has lapsed visible rather than deleted.

Third, flags are narrower than marketing language. Fragrance-free and outdoor-use mark verification against specific criteria documents - products making softer claims like 'unscented' or 'plant-based' will not light those booleans up. Name the sectors, product types and fields you want, and Get a sample of this dataset returns real rows in exactly the schema shown above.