Health and safety are a very important issues in wood protection nowadays. As for the sapstain control many new chemicals are being used instead of PCP. This has given rise to concern among the regulatory authorities, the formulators of the control agents and the users of treated wood. Are the new products safe to use? How expensive tests must be done to prove that the product is harmless to the workers at the treatment plant and to the environment? How to prove that the treated wood is not harmful to the end-users? These are problems that a formulator will also be facing in a product development work.

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