Published: November 01, 2010
North American Salt Company Announces EPA Recognition for Ice Melt Product
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - North American Salt Company, a subsidiary of Compass Minerals (NYSE:
CMP), today announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has
awarded the Design for the Environment (DfE) label to one of the
company's packaged ice melter products.
Safe Step Pro Series 960 Choice Formula (Photo: Business Wire)
Safe Step Pro Series 960 Choice Formula ice melter now will carry the
DfE label, indicating that the product meets the EPA's criteria for
environmental safety.
"The DfE label ensures that the designated product is on the green end
of the health and environment spectrum," said Jerry Bucan, vice
president and general manager of NASC's consumer and industrial
business. "The EPA has extremely stringent guidelines for considering a
product for this label, and we're pleased that the agency recognized our
Pro Series 960 Choice Formula for its low environmental impact and
eco-friendly formula."
The EPA's DfE label is awarded after the agency's review team has
screened each ingredient contained in a product and found each to pose
the least concern among chemicals in its class.
Safe Step is a leading ice melter brand for building maintenance and
landscape professionals. The 960 Choice Formula is a low-toxicity
formulation that has fewer chlorides, is less corrosive and helps
prevent refreezing up to two and one-half times longer than conventional
ice melters. It melts ice in temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees
Fahrenheit.
About North American Salt Company
North American Salt Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Compass
Minerals, sells salt and other minerals to customers throughout the
United States. The company's products include mined rock salt for
highway and consumer deicing, and high-grade branded and private label
mineral products for consumer and industrial use.
About Compass Minerals
Based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Compass Minerals is a
leading producer of minerals, including salt, sulfate of potash
specialty fertilizer and magnesium chloride. The company provides
highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United
Kingdom and specialty fertilizer to growers worldwide. Compass Minerals
also produces consumer deicing and water conditioning products,
ingredients used in consumer and commercial foods, and other
mineral-based products for consumer, agricultural and industrial
applications. Compass Minerals also provides records management services
to businesses throughout the U.K.

North American Salt Company
Kelly Barton, 913-344-9319
Manager
of Corporate Communications
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