The Issue
Chemicals management includes a broad range of efforts and practices to ensure the safe and environmentally sound manufacturing, distribution, handling and disposal of chemical products, intermediates and waste. These practices encompass the entire product life cycle, including:
- Testing products to assess hazards
- Evaluating potential exposures of products with their intended applications to identify and manage risks
- Registering new products with proper authorities
- Notifying all involved parties of potential hazards and safe-handling procedures
Our Global Position
At Dow, we strive to develop, manufacture, transport and market our products responsibly. We work to ensure that our products are handled safely and recycled or disposed of properly. We also welcome appropriate governmental review of our operations and products.
Dow supports consistent and coordinated product regulations at the global, national and regional levels to complement industry's voluntary efforts and to ensure a level playing field. When new regulations are required, it is Dow's position that they should be based on established scientific principles to define safe conditions for use. Further, regulations should impose requirements to assure that use is controlled within predefined safe conditions. Regulations should rely on risk assessment and management principles that are predictable, flexible and capable of responsibly addressing society's economic, environmental and safety requirements.
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