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You can use our model letter to ask your government to nominate more chemicals to the EU’s ‘most harmful list’. The deadlines are twice a year at the start of January and August. Please see here.
In Focus
A CHEM Trust and HEAL briefing
6 April 2012 - Regulating chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties
View EDC-briefing in various languages here
Consensus Statements and Declarations
Important Public Consultations
Restriction on 4 phthalates in consumer products
Under EU REACH law
deadline 16th December 2011
Nominations to REACH Most Harmful Chemicals List
European Chemicals Agency
deadlines twice a year usually in April + October
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Concern mounts about chemicals contamination from unconventional natural gas
Concern in Europe is mounting about the threats of hazardous chemical contamination and subsequent public health consequences from the unconventional drilling for natural gas. The hydrofracturing (...) (Read more...)
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France close to banning BPA in food contact materials
The French National Assembly voted on 13 October, by 348 votes for and 2 against, to ban bisphenol A (BPA) in all food contact materials from 2014. The decision, which now goes to the French (...) (Read more...)
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EU holding meeting on EDCs
The European Commission is holding the 3rd Ad-hoc meeting of Commission Services, European Agencies and Member States under the Community Strategy for Endocrine Disruptors and the 1st Expert (...) (Read more...)
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First proposed ban of chemicals ’cocktail’ in consumer products
The European Chemicals Agency is conducting a public consultation on a proposed ban of certain articles containing a combination of four phthalates (DEHP, BBP, DBP and DIBP). This consultation is (...) (Read more...)
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European Week on Human Biomonitoring Nov 28 – Dec 2
The European Humanbiomonitoring projects are holding a week of meetings in Brussels. About the projects. The European Union Research Programme is funding a project to deveop a framework for (...) (Read more...)
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New book about raising children in age of environmental crisis
Sandra Steingraber, well known author of two important books on environmental health, has just published another work about raising children in an age of environmental crisis. Her previous (...) (Read more...)
Chemicals & Health Bulletin
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