In today's increasingly complex regulatory landscape, concerns about hazardous substances and closer scrutiny of a company's use of global resources makes product stewardship a more essential task. Research is conducted every year that raises new questions about the environmental and health effects of various chemicals. This drives continual change in regulatory requirements and greater customer demand for transparency and assurance of materials—placing increasing pressure on our global supply chain. In response, our product integrity program takes a proactive and strategic approach toward safer and more sustainable products and packaging. To this end, we are:

• Enhancing our product testing and data management systems

• Incorporating regulatory requirements early in the design process and developing tools to track compliance with evolving regulations (including European REACH, RohS, WEEE and TSCA)

• Monitoring products against a Restricted Substances List, which includes chemical materials that we ban in all of our products and other substances that are monitored for compliance with regional, industry and customer requirements

• Integrating product sustainability reviews and LCA into our R&D processes

FSC-Certification: We have completed Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) chain-of-custody (CoC) certification for 49 of our operating plants. Products bearing the FSC logo guarantee that the wood used in manufacturing came from forests certified by independent third parties for practicing responsible forestry. Avery Dennison has FSC CoC-certified facilities in these regions: North America (Canada, Mexico, U.S.), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador), EMEA (Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, U.K.), Asia Pacific (Bangladesh, China, India, Japan Korea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam).

FSC is a registered trademark of the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC-C007276