Product Responsibility - Baxter Sustainability Report

BPA-free, uses less resin during manufacturing, generates less biohazardous waste and uses lesscorrugated packaging.More generally, Baxter is working with external LCA experts to update and revitalize the PSR process.Baxter plans to have outside stakeholders, including customers, review and provide input on the new process.Emerging Customer RequirementsCustomers in the United States and Europe increasingly require information related to product environmentalperformance in requests for proposal and consider that information in vendor selection. Baxter reflects theserequirements in the PSR process – i.e., the need to avoid certain chemicals of concern.Similarly, governments also increasingly set environmental criteria for "greener" public procurement. In theUnited Kingdom, the National Health Service requires that five percent of the information included in tendersdescribes the company's environmental performance.Baxter anticipates that these trends will continue, and that responsiveness to these requirements willrepresent an increasing source of competitive advantage in the future.1Such as the Europe Community Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, REACH (Registration,Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances) Regulation, Energy-using Products (EuP)Directive, and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive.2Human albumin, which is an essential protein found in human plasma, is used to treat critically ill patients byreplacing lost fluid and maintaining adequate blood pressure and volume.3Carbon Trust Footprint Expert Database.http://www.sustainability.baxter.com/product-responsibility/research-development-design/product-sustainabilityreview.html© Copyright 2011 Baxter International Inc. All Rights Reserved.