The use of such chemicals in ordinary consumer products, together with environmental exposure, also represents a health hazard to individuals. Chemicals are involved in most products and industrial processes today, and the use of chemicals has increased dangerously during the past 50 years. This represents a serious threat to biological diversity, food supplies and health in future generations. Strict controls to ensure compliance. Industry must constantly reduce the risks involved in the use of environmentally hazardous chemicals, so that products, processes and waste will contain only those chemicals which pose the lesser hazard to public health and the environment.
Information is also necessary for choosing healthy and environment-friendly products.
The main responsibility for providing information lies with the commercial sector. This has to do with the right to information, the duty to provide information, and the use of information as a means of reducing the use of hazardous chemicals.