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In the 1960, scientists first realized that detergents could have a significant impact on waterways and wastewater treatment plants. Procter & Gamble took the lead in insuring that the Company's products were safe for the environment and created a department charged with identifying solutions to questions of environmental safety.
Since its beginnings, the scientists of the Procter & Gamble Environmental Science Department (ESD) have held an ongoing leadership in the development of strategies and methods for environmental testing. For example:
- Procter & Gamble was one of the first companies in the world to actively study the environmental impact of high-volume ingredients in consumer products.
- ESD's early publications broke new ground by conceptualizing environmental risk assessment as a tiered process.
- Algal bottle tests introduced in ESD provided rapid, relatively inexpensive screening-level tests at a time when scientists had only begun to think about ways to measure environmental effects of consumer products.
- The Sturm test for ready biodegradability, one of the first and best-known methods for measuring biodegradability, was developed in ESD.
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