The use of chemicals has brought mankind numerous benefits as well as has brought negative impacts to their health

and the environment, in particular to the poor countries and the youth. I believe it is unethical for a country to continue to manufacture and export chemicals with adverse health effects to other countries most likely the developing countries, thereby protecting their citizens but not caring for the harmful effects towards the other countrys citizens. The unsound management and use of chemicals threatens the sustainability of the environment which provides essential goods-and-services for livelihoods, it undermines human health, it threatens physical security, and it reduces the ability of communities to care for themselves especially, for children. Exposure to chemical agents in the environment has been implicated in numerous adverse effects, from cancer to lung disease to brain damage to birth defects. Hazardous pollutants contribute to the large and growing toll of chronic conditions such as cancers and heart disease. Chemical pollutants may play a role in making the body less immune to infections. The level of risk faced by poor countries is extravagantly higher than in those with sufficient resources to effectively manage and monitor chemical use. Additionally many poor people have weakened immune systems, making them more vulnerable to chemical-related illness; their well-being may be further compromised by lack of access to information about the impact of chemicals, and their living conditions and work places may leave them exposed to the hazards of toxic chemicals.

Examples of significant adverse reactions towards chemicals with adverse effects include long-lasting or irreversible damage to human health, partial or complete impairment of bodily functions, impairment of normal activity each time an individual is exposed, gradual or sudden changes to animal or plant life in a given geographic area, abnormal numbers of deaths, changes in behavior of organisms, long lasting or irreversible contamination of the physical environment. Pesticides find their way into lakes and rivers and contaminate them. Most of these chemicals get progressively concentrated in the food chain. These chemicals can cause longterm damage to the health of human beings. Exposure to pesticides can occur directly typically to agricultural workers and their families and those who live near places where pesticides are heavily used e.g. farms. Exposures can also be indirect when pesticides contaminate surface waters or groundwater or soil, or when a pesticide residue on food is ingested. Some of the most problematic pesticides are organic compounds that are slow to degrade and persist in the environment for years, accumulating in animal and human tissues.