Safe and Sustainable by Design
SSbD is a pre-market approach which aims at facilitating the industrial transition towards a safe, zero pollution, climate-neutral and resource-efficient production and consumption, addressing adverse effects on humans, ecosystems and biodiversity from a lifecycle perspective.
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Tufenkji, N., Yargeau, V., and Frigon, A., 2025. A Conceptual Framework for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design to Support Sustainable Business Model Innovation and New Product Development. https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2498-8902
Stoycheva, S., Hristozov, D., Pizzol, L. and Zabeo, A., 2025. Implementing Social Life Cycle Assessment for Safe and Sustainable by Design Advanced Materials: A Case Study of Multicomponent Anti-Stick Coatings. Journal of Sustainability Research. https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1868_Detail.html
Stoycheva, S., Zabeo, A., Pizzol, L. and Hristozov, D., 2022. Socio-economic life cycle-based framework for safe and sustainable design of engineered nanomaterials and nano-enabled products. Sustainability, 14(9), p.5734. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095734
Hristozov, D., Zabeo, A., Soeteman-Hernández, L.G., Pizzol, L. and Stoycheva, S., 2023. Safe-and-sustainable-by-design chemicals and advanced materials: a paradigm shift towards prevention-based risk governance is needed. RSC Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SU00045A
Pizzol, L., Livieri, A., Salieri, B., Farcal, L., Soeteman-Hernández, L.G., Rauscher, H., Zabeo, A., Blosi, M., Costa, A.L., Peijnenburg, W. and Stoycheva, S., 2023. Screening level approach to support companies in making safe and sustainable by design decisions at the early stages of innovation. Cleaner Environmental Systems, p.100132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesys.2023.100132
