Our success and our future are founded on innovative products that benefit people and help them live a better life. Merck products are highly trusted worldwide – whether our innovative medicines of chemical or biological origin, our over-the-counter products, our liquid crystals for LC displays, Merck pigments for the coatings, plastics and printing industries, products for the cosmetics industry, or biopharmaceuticals and lab solutions for the life science industry. Responsibility for our products will always be at the core of our corporate responsibility. Here, we are driven by our ethical standards as well as our high expectations for safety and environmental compatibility.