Safety public perception chang

These factors resulted in a dramatic change in the public perception of the chemical industry. In an uninformed public mind, it became the principal culprit for all environmental ills. During the 1980s almost every country in the world passed their own environmental protection laws, transforming the whole concept of work and occupational safety. The pendulum has swung totally in the opposite direction to its position in the late 1960s. Today, we cannot manufacture, market, transport or dispose of chemicals without proper authorization and/or documentation in industrialised countries. 

Domestic perceptions that locally produced products are of inferior quality relative to imports and (4) the lack of public and private sector investment in the infrastmcture that facilities such export readiness, value-addition processing opportunities and thus international trade and (5) The need for real pubhc policy discussion and changes that could better integrate formally the use of botanicals in health care while assuring safety. 

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