Its health sciences division may need to be divorced from its chemicals and agriculture businesses.
But the ban doesn't spell out what chemicals they can use to replace phthalates.
"There are 80, 000 chemicals in commerce, " says California Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist Stephen Dizio.
And he says the U.S. is replacing known chemicals with chemicals about which little is known.
They did it riding the sleepy chemicals company LyondellBasell into bankruptcy and out again.
For chemicals companies, as for other industries we surveyed, risk analytics presents an opportunity.
Several states are considering bills to require a full accounting of the chemicals used in fracking.
There are also of course questions about long term exposure to chemicals in our environment.
Fungicides afford some protection but huge quantities of chemicals are an expensive and limited answer.
Demand in China for the north-east's products, such as machinery and chemicals, has helped.
In a 2010 letter to the EPA, ExxonMobil Chemicals Vice President Elissa P.
As tissue decays, he said, certain chemicals are produced that inhibit the formation of disease.
Traditionally research chemists carry out four experiments a day, mixing chemicals in bucketlike containers.
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Exxon Mobil, which counts with a large chemicals business, has gained less than 2% in 2013.
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"Rapid intervention is essential in order to limit damage by chemicals and poisons, " the researchers wrote.
Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which can derive earnings from upstream, downstream, and even chemicals.
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For the EU, the biggest gains are expected in the machinery, cars and chemicals sectors.
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In the negotiations we were pressed to ban nonlethal chemicals along with lethal chemical weapons.
One example is getting toxins and chemicals out of our food and personal care products.
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Volume for its two largest merchandise products, agricultural products and chemicals, fell 7% and 8% respectively.
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Now a raft of Indian companies such as GHCL, formerly Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd.
Alpha-interferons are natural immune system chemicals, some of which have been developed as hepatitis drugs.
Still unknown: what types of chemicals and in what quantities were stored at the facility.
The warehouses were said to contain chemicals and material used in construction and salt production.
Few chemicals on the market today have undergone as much scientific scrutiny as ph thalate esters.
Could life have really started in some completely different soup of chemicals with different building blocks?
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In 2003-2005 in Italy, colorless chemicals used to poison commercial drink containers claimed 33 lives.
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It contains acid, mercury and other chemicals and has a great impact on residents' health.
At least 38 states have taken action to control one or more of these chemicals.
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