According to US figures, there are over 87,000 chemical compounds on the market there. Taiwan lacks comparable statistics, but as Associate Professor Ding Wang-hsien of National Central University's chemistry department observes, people in Taiwan have an Americanized lifestyle, so naturally we also use a vast array of chemical substances in our daily lives.
根據美國的統計，市面上流通的化合物有八萬七千多種，台灣雖缺少統計數字，中央大學化學系副教授丁望賢指出，台灣人過的是美式生活，身旁的化學物質自然也是琳瑯滿目，難以勝數。