With over 83,000 known chemicals used in industry, the concept and application of "green" chemistry should be a mandatory process to stop infiltrating the environment with toxins. The link I followed noted:
One area of growing concern is how to ensure that the next generation of chemicals does not have the potential to act as endocrine disrupting compounds.
By using various checkpoints along the way of testing, compounds can be tested for such markers. The idea is then if they don't pass each checkpoint with safe results, then testing begins anew.
These ideas seems like total common sense. I just wonder how people will actually succeed getting industry to follow protective standards. And the issue of how we can deal with these thousands of chemicals that have already been introduced into our whole ecology--as with plastics and hormone disruptors in our water supply affecting plant and animal life.
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