Environmental health business

The agrochemical industry can contribute to sustainable development in the course of this century by offering agrochemicals and environmental health chemicals. In this paper, the author first discusses the mission of die agrochemical industry for human welfare with respect to plant protection and environmental health business. He also describes his ideas on how the agricultural chemical business should be advanced by focusing on the example of Sumitomo Chemical. He then outlines the current situation and future outlook of the environmental health business. 

The environmental health business focuses on developing products that promote a safe and comfortable living environment (see Figure 4). One of the primary roles is offering measures to protect people from insect-borne infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever. OQier important roles are offering... 

The outline of the environmental health business is shown in Table I. This field includes indoor consumer products such as household insecticides, outdoor consumer products such as those for pest control, and public-health related products for mosquito abatement and professional vector control. All these products are required to have superior safety characteristics. The size of the world market for the environmental health business in terms of retail sales is also shown in Table I. The market size is estimated to be roughly 7.2 billion dollars overall, of which about 70%, or 5.0 billion dollars, represents the indoor use insecticide market. The size of the outdoor use insecticide and public health insecticide markets is 1.4 billion and 800 million dollars, respectively. 

In 2001, Sumitomo Chemical acquired the household insecticide business of Aventis Environmental Sciences. The predecessor of this conq)any was the environmental health business of Schering, Roussel Uclaf, and Wellcome. As a result of this acquisition, Sumitomo Chemical succeeded in building a strong position as a principal manufacturer in the environmental health field. Other major makers include Bayer CropScience, Syngenta, and FMC. 

To assist you in looking beyond this book. Chapter 9 addresses the expansion of process safety management programs and techniques to cover transportation and other business activities requiring environmental, health, and safety control. Chapter 9 also raises some of the issues that readers should consider in implementing process safety management internationally. 

Given the scope and impact of formulated products, tools are needed to help chemical choosers - whether product developers or purchasers - to identify chemicals with desirable characteristics from the hazard perspective and to determine how the use of a particular chemical will affect the overall hazard profile or greenness of a product. We focus in particular on pubhcly available tools and resources that can support small businesses who may not have extensive environmental health and safety resources but who seek to green their chemical products and inventories. 

The work of the Investors Environmental Health Network is targeted toward investors and senior executives and focuses on corporate management of product detoxification. From an article published in the journal. Corporate Environmental Strategy International Journal for Sustainable Business, Richard Liroff wrote ... 

Every year, corrosion is responsible for the failure of many thousands of water mains. These are the pipes that transport water to Canadian homes and businesses. Research and describe the economic, environmental, health, and safety issues associated with rupture and repair of water mains. Describe the methods that are being used to improve the situation. 

Process R D, Pharmaceutical Research Institute Environmental Health and Safety Quality Assurance and Compliance Business Development Legal Affairs... 

The Canadian Petroleum Products Institute (CPPI) is an association of Canadian companies involved in the refining, distribution and marketing of petroleum products. The Institute represents the views of its members on business, environmental, health and safety issues. 

Consequence The direct undesirable result of an accident sequence usually involving a fire, explosion, release of toxic material. Consequence descriptions may include estimates of the effects of an accident in terms of factors such as health impacts, physical destruction, environmental damage, business interruption and public reaction or company prestige. 

The American Chemistry Council represents the leading companies engaged in the business of chemistry. Council members apply the science of chemistry to make innovative products and services that make people s lives better, healthier, and safer. The Council is committed to improved environmental, health, and safety performance through Responsible Care , common sense advocacy designed to address major public policy issues, and health and environmental research and chemical testing. The business of chemistry is a 450 billion enterprise in the United States and a key element of the nation s economy. It is the... 

Another company incorporated the tool into its training program for new environmental, health, and safety managers. Participants in the training use the tool to develop a comprehensive approach to addressing sustainable development for a hypothetical acquired business unit. 

In recent decades, the company has sought continual improvement in its environmental performance, and it has detailed its goals and its efforts to achieve them. It has expanded its reporting to increase transparency. And, through its recently revised Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Management System, it has made sustainability a required part of each business strategic planning. 

With 500 new products introduced each year, 3M has a continuous flow of opportunities for improving its environmental, health and safety performance. To make the most of these opportunities, 3M requires that all new products undergo LCM review prior to commercialization. Business units also conduct LCM reviews for existing products on a prioritized basis. In these reviews, product development teams address the environmental, health and safety opportunities, and issues present at each stage of a product s life - from development and manufacturing, through distribution and customer use, to disposal. 

The GEMI is a non-profit organisation located in Washington, whose membership is drawn mainly from US companies. It is dedicated to improving environmental, health and safety performance worldwide in order to help business achieve environmental excellence. 

---