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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  • Stella Stoycheva, Willie Peijnenburg, Beatrice Salieri, Vrishali Subramanian, Agnes G. Oomen, Lisa Pizzol, Magda Blosi, Anna Costa, Shareen H. Doak, Vicki Stone, Arianna Livieri, Vikram Kestens, Irantzu Garmendia, Hubert Rauscher, Neil Hunt, Danail Hristozov, Lya G. Soeteman-Hernández, 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