The responsibility of the analytical chemist to society

The multi-dimensional job of analytics today, the role of ethics and truthfulness in providing a fundamental orientation for the ethical behavior of analytical chemists and the necessity for efficiency of analytical investigations, are discussed. Process-related, material-related, economic and environmental and life science issues will increasingly be the mainspring for further analytical research and development in the coming decade. Analytics provide reliable quality assurance in the production of new materials, the optimization of technical processes or environmental conditions. The progress in all fields of human life in the future, as in the past, will not be possible without an innovative analytics.