Will the new EU chemicals strategy make our world less toxic? Move aims to address gaps in the regulation of chemicals in products on EU market about an hour ago Chemicals are in almost everything we interact with and the World Health Organisation estimates the global production of chemicals will be four times higher in 2050 than it was in 2010. And while most of the production of basic chemicals happens outside Europe, chemical manufacturing is the fourth largest industry in the EU. Chemicals are so commonly used in the production of food, cleaning agents, textiles, pharmaceuticals, offi...