Six common misconceptions about chemicals and the risks they do and don't present to human health and the environment.

In this blog, I use roads as a seemingly benign product that exemplifies societal dependence on synthetic chemicals.

The story of regrettable substitution is bigger and more complex than one chemical replacing another. It also involves behavioural change.

Guidelines are not able to protect human health and the environment from the harmful effects of pollution. But if guidelines do not suffice,