You can use our model letter to contact your national ministry responsible for the REACH chemicals law, and urge them to nominate more chemicals to the ‘most harmful list’ by the next deadline in early August 2010. Please see here.
In December, the European Chemicals Agency’s Member State Committee accepted the newest fifteen substances of very high concern as ‘candidate list chemicals’ see here. However, only fourteen of (...) (Read more...)
EU Environment Council calls for assessing combination effects of chemicals (Read more...)
On December 18, 2009, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published hazard and safe-use information on chemical substances that had been registered until that date in accordance with the REACH (...) (Read more...)
For the first time, bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen, has been unveiled in umbilical cord blood of American infants. The Environmental Working Group, in partnership (...) (Read more...)