"...In this report we address these concerns and propose a new way forward. We cannot fully resolve the uncertainties in our understanding of the fate and effects of chemicals in the environment, but we can envisage a swifter and more comprehensive system of regulating chemicals and keeping track of them, better practices leading to the replacement of hazardous chemicals and chemical processes with less hazardous ones, and a broader debate of the assessment process and its outcomes. We concentrate on the environmental regulation and legislation dealing with synthetic chemicals reaching the market. We do not consider the manufacture of chemicals, the control of processes and production risks, or emissions from process plant, although the monitoring regimes we propose, primarily to give warnings of the effects of dispersed emissions of chemical products, should also inform the regulation of chemical processes and provide links between regulatory regimes. ..."

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