Detergent Makers Clean Up Their Act

摘要

It took a decade, but California finally has a law requiring extensive labeling of ingredients in cleaning products, and it got support from what might seem the unlikeliest of advocates: the manufacturers themselves. After years of arguing the need to preserve their proprietary formulas in detergents and oven cleaners, companies such as Procter & Gamble Co., whose products include Mr. Clean and Comet, and Reckitt Benckiser Group Pic, the maker of Easy-Off, last summer signed on to a deal with lawmakers and health and environmental groups.