We must improve and accelerate science and chemistryeducation, train today the chemists of tomorrow and enable everyone to understand chemical processes and gauge their impact.
Annette Smith, chief executive of the Association of ScienceEducation, described the biology, chemistry and physics curricula as a "dull list of topics".
Professor Jim Iley, executive director of science and education at the Royal Society of Chemistry told BBC News that gaps in data meant there was still a "degree of uncertainty" about the impact of the chemicals.