All chemicals (old or new) that are incorporated into any anthropogenic product must pass basic environmental health safety tests and be placed on a ‘clean’ list of approved chemicals. Of course, such a list would be graduated with chemicals being categorized according to their various environmental effects and regulated accordingly.

Such a list would be referred to by anyone else who is in the market for a new chemical to use in any other product and they would automatically be able to use any chemicals on such a ‘clean’ list without further regulatory approval.

The default government regulatory position should be for all new chemicals to automatically be placed on a ‘prohibited’ list until such chemicals have passed the proper human and environmental safety tests. The chemicals which have passed would then be placed on the ‘clean’ list, eligible for use.