A report about chemicals that are hazardous for the environment and/or health has been produced every year since 1994. The report contains statistics on chemicals widely used for many areas. Each year there is also a special study with a different theme every year. The special study this year is about consumer chemicals such as paint, cleaning agents, petrol and adhesives.
Correction 2011-05-11
A correction has been made in the publication Hazardous chemicals. The information for imports and exports 2007-2009 and the manufacture for commodity code 285200 in 2007 is too uncertain to be published, and is therefore marked with .. in Table 2.
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Swedish Chemical Agency
Hazardous chemicals 2009
This year´s report on hazardous chemicals from the Swedish Chemicals Agency and Statistics Sweden shows that the number of products hazardous to health and available to consumers is decreasing. Of the chemical products available to consumers which were imported and produced at the beginning of 1990s, about half were hazardous to health. By the end of the 1990s, this share had decreased and today it is 39 percent. Examples of consumer chemicals are paint, cleaning agents, petrol and adhesives.
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