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Hazard assessment of products is a fundamental element of any PS effort. While hazard communication and transportation regulations require some fundamental hazard data to be generated to determine the physical and health hazards of a product, there is no specific minimum set of data required in the United States for most existing chemicals. The global landscape for hazard data for new chemicals, as defined by multiple chemical control regulations, have moved toward minimum data sets in some countries and is generating the need for additional data to meet risk assessment requirements. In the US registered pesticides are an exception. When developing a “new chemical” as defined by the various chemical control regulations a producer is required to submit what data are available, in the United States, and specific hazard data sets in Canada and the EU depending on the volume and other factors such as specific uses. PS takes this element much further and in essence requires companies to do what is right, “commensurate” with the anticipated hazards and risk. In other words, increased risk requires additional hazard information to be developed and made available in the appropriate manner to product users and in many cases the public. Business‐to‐business or commercial requirements are also increasing the need for increasing hazard data for products.