Product safety
The human and environmental safety of our products is an absolute priority for Unilever.
Product safety
It is important to us that every one of our consumers knows that a Unilever product means the optimal combination of safety and efficacy.
The laws of the regions and countries where the product is made and sold are our starting point for developing safe products. Then we apply our own high corporate standards that require approval from our own safety specialists before we place any product on the market or even evaluate it with consumers.
Unilever has a long-established Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC) which assesses and assures the human, environmental and occupational safety of our operations and our products everywhere we operate around the world. Teams of scientific experts based at the Centre specialise in areas such as toxicology, environmental science, chemistry, microbiology, skin (dermatitis, allergy) and lifecycle assessment. They operate strictly independently of commercial considerations.
We assess all new formulations and all changes to products to make sure they are safe for you to use. SEAC's safety assessment takes into account anyone who might be expected to use the product, from the very young to the old and infirm, and all reasonably foreseeable usage scenarios. It also covers all stages of the product, from manufacturing to distribution, use and disposal.
We also continuously review our assessments in the light of the most recent research and findings.
