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Export Inherent Safety NOT Risk David W. Edwards, Visiting Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering,Loughborough University, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE11 3TU, UK.D.W.Edwards@Lboro.ac.uk ABSTRACT The author presents a personal view that production of bulk chemicals and the attendant risks are being transferred from developed to developing nations. Some evidence is presented for the transfer of production. The transferred risk is increased because of the larger scale plants that are now built in locales that are less able to cope with the increased hazards. Bhopal was an example of an inherently u