Toyota Says ‘Time to Get Serious’ About Chemicals in Products

Industries making planes, refrigerators, computers, and other goods need to know what specific chemicals are in their products so they can understand how evolving chemical regulations could affect them, auto and electronics industry officials said Friday at a Pentagon conference.

A lot of industries think it’s too burdensome to know which chemicals are in thousands of parts used to make their products, Mark Bacchus, a senior manager at Toyota Motor North America, Inc., told participants during a session that discussed U.S. and European chemical regulations.

But “you have to do it. There’s no way around it,” he said. “It’s ...