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Watch the video to learn more about the Lautenburg Chemical Safety Act (LCSA).

Learn more about how chemical manufacturers put science to work to support everyday life and what safety measures are employed to help keep people and communities safe.

Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products.

Its primary industrial use is to make phosphoric acid which is a main ingredient in most chemical fertilizers.

The industry greatly influences our safe water supply, food, shelter, clothing, health care, computer technology, transportation, and almost every other facet of modern life.

Oil and gas
Chemical production
Food, beverage and tobacco

The pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing sector has seen the greatest growth in the state.

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More than a dozen federal laws govern the safe manufacture and use of chemicals forming a complementary regulatory system to protect people and the environment including the Lautenburg Chemical Safety Act (LCSA) enacted in 2016.

More than 96% of all manufactured goods are directly touched by the business of chemistry so much so that the US Government considers the chemical sector a critical part of our country's infrastructure.

The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.

Sulfuric acid is the most commonly-produced industrial chemical in the world.

More than 96% of all manufactured goods are directly touched by the chemicals industry.

What are the state's top three sub-sectors of manufacturing?

What manufacturing sector that has seen the greatest growth in Louisiana?

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