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Behind the Manufacturing & Community Toxics score

MfrTox

Terramica Particleboard

Potlatch Corporation

Data Sources

Avista Energy Information 1

Potlatch Terramica Brochure

Potlatch Terramica MSDS Sheet

Potlatch Terramica Website

Certifications

SCS Indoor Advantage (basic)
-Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) (Mixed Credit)
-Rainforest Alliance Smartwood Program

CA 93120 No-Added Formaldehyde (NAF)
-California Air Resources Board (CARB)

CPA Environmentally Preferable Product (EPP) (Grademark Program)
-Composite Panel Association (CPA)

MfrTox Scoring Step-by-Step

This section addresses the health impact of chemicals used or emitted at any stage of the manufacturing of the product to which workers or neighboring communities could be exposed.

Scoring above a 1 in MfrTox requires that the manufacturer disclose 100% of the product's material contents. Pharos evaluates materials listed in the material content, as well as all chemicals used, generated or emitted in manufacture against chemical hazard warnings in the Chemical & Material Library (CML). Pharos awards higher scores to products that eliminate flagged chemicals of concern identified or use or emit them less frequently. Click here to see a table of the flagged levels of concern and frequency levels for chemicals and how they are scored.

Pharos will not score products that do not have full material content disclosure. Those products for which all contents are not disclosed receive a score of 1-incomplete data.

Pharos is currently developing systems for collecting emissions data from manufacturing facilities. Currently, scoring for all products in this section is based upon chemicals of concern in the product content and used in its manufacture. Users will be notified when the data collection system is complete and scoring is adjusted to include manufacturing emissions.

Click here for full scoring protocol for Manufacturing & Community Toxics

Score of 4 because of Red flagged chemical/s used integrally.(ANILINE and possibly others)

Material Contents

Material	Max %	Min %	Est %	Frequency	Material Flags	Compound Flags	Lifecycle Flags	Renewable

Wood dust - unspecified	95.0	81.0	No	Always
Material treated with: Antimicrobials? No Flame retardants? No Water or stain repellants? No Nano? No

Western Red Cedar	49.9	20.0	Yes	Rare
Material treated with: Antimicrobials? No Flame retardants? No Water or stain repellants? No Nano? No

POLYMERIC MDI (PMDI) (CAS RN: 9016-87-9)	3.5	2.0	No	Always
Material treated with: Antimicrobials? No Flame retardants? No Water or stain repellants? No Nano? No