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Product stewardship

As well as managing environmental issues at our factories, we look more widely at the life cycle of our products - from product design to use and eventual disposal. We call this product stewardship.

This section focuses on:

• Product design - how we are incorporating environmental considerations into the design of new products.
• Pharmaceuticals in the environment - what we are doing to understand and minimise the impact of pharmaceuticals released to the environment (following use).
• CFCs in metered dose inhalers - how we are progressing against our target to eliminate the use of CFCs (an ozone depleting gas) from our product portfolio by 2010.

There are a number of other environmental issues associated with our products, including the use of genetically modified organisms and the use of natural resources which may impact on biodiversity. See more on our approach to biodiversity and genetically modified organisms. The research & development section of this report covers our approach to animal testing.

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