IPEN Participating Organization Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) launched figures today showing that exposure to endocrine disruptors may be responsible for up to €31 billion per year in health costs in the European Union.
"Parents are more and more concerned: our offices are flooded with information requests from worried mothers and fathers who are outraged because they have no means of knowing which harmful substances are in toys, and that policy makers and industry are not doing enough to protect their children’s health. They demand full disclosure of ingredients (as with cosmetics) and stricter laws that apply the precautionary principle, with zero tolerance for harmful chemicals".
by Alexandra Caterbow, senior chemicals/health policy adviser, WECF
IPEN Participating Organization Génération Futures and the network Réseau Environnementale Santé (RES) have issued a press release wecloming a new report from the French national assembly asking for more urgent action nationally and from the European Union on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), and outlining their expectations. Read the whole release here.
WECF has launched a new report on chemicals in textiles in an effort to gain more coherent and transparent rules for textiles in the EU and beyond, as well as for better protection of workers, consumers and the global environment. Read an Executive Summary of the report (in English and French).
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe press release on the Swiss and German chemical producers' decision to sue the European Commission over the ban imposed on thiamethoxam, clothianidin and imidacloprid. In April this year, following EFSA’s conclusions on the high risk posed by these chemicals for bees, the Commission banned these insecticides on many crops.