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Bulletin 2009-04
Please find below recent news and emerging science on environmental impacts to human health, gleaned from Environmental Health News and other sources.
This service is provided to you as a part of the HEAL’s Chemicals Health Monitor project. To receive more information about the project, please, send an e-mail to Hana Kuncova at hana@env-health.org.
To read this latest issue on-line, please, click here.
HEAL and its partners celebrated European consumer day
On Friday 13th March 2009, the Health and Environment Alliance together with partners (see below) celebrated the European consumer day by (...)Exposure to chemicals linked to increase in asthma
Two new studies link frequent exposures to chemicals with the onset or worsening of Asthma. The first, entitled "Evaluation of Cleaning (...)Reduction in hormone replacement tied to fall in cancer
Donald Maxwell Parkin has written a paper for the European Journal of Cancer seeking to link recent declines in British women using Hormone (...)Cosmetics companies asked to own up on chemicals
The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has created an online checklist on which they list cosmetics companies that meet certain requirements in (...)World Cancer Report 2008 released
The World Health Organization (WHOand the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have released a comprehensive report detailing the (...)Asthma symptoms connected to common indoor particles
Small changes in indoor enviroments can worsen Asthma A study entitled "In-Home Particle Concentrations and Childhood Asthma Morbidity " (...)Providing information on chemicals in articles and products
A workshop was recently convened by the United Nations Environment Program UNEP, along with Sweden and Japan, in order to discuss how those who (...)Most occupational cancer’s are preventable
Far too many workers are unaware of the potential risks that their workplace exposures to chemicals pose to them. This is what a new study, (...)
Latest News
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The Cocktail Effect – Opportunity for Public Input to EU Scientific Committees
As mandated by the Council of Environmental Ministers in December 2009, the European Union Commission is starting to look at how to address the daily reality of our exposure to mixtures of (...) (Read more...)
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8 more chemicals on most harmful list
In mid June, eight more chemicals were formally adopted by the European Chemicals Agency’s Member State Committee as ‘Substances of very high concern’, and ECHA has added them to REACH’s most (...) (Read more...)
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Outlook for the identification of Europe’s most harmful chemicals
One of the indicators for the robustness of the new European Chemicals management system, known as REACH, is often taken to be the rate of growth of its innovative list of ‘most harmful’ chemicals. (...) (Read more...)
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European health group supports call for reducing exposure to BPA
On the 23 June 2010, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) added its name to a letter to European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) calling for a reduction in human exposure to the synthetic (...) (Read more...)
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European Union Commissioners announce decisions on moving the implementation of REACH forward
REACH implementation for PBT criteria, candidate list, and authorization is able to progress due to Commissioners’ agreement. (Read more...)
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Eight more chemicals proposed for REACH ’most harmful’ list
The European chemicals agency has published proposals for eight chemicals to be placed on the EU chemicals legislation REACH's most harmful list. The proposals are open for public comment until (...) (Read more...)
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Study charts path for better protection from harmful "chemical mixtures"
The EU can and should assess and manage the risks from exposure to chemical mixtures, better known as the "cocktail effect", according to a significant report commissioned by the Environment (...) (Read more...)
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Moving towards protection from the combination effects of chemicals
EU Environment Council calls for assessing combination effects of chemicals (Read more...)
- This website is a part of the Chemicals Health Monitor Project (CHM), which aims to improve public health by ensuring that key scientific evidence on the links between chemicals and ill-health are translated into policy as quickly as possible. The CHM project was launched by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) in collaboration with CHEM Trust, Collaborative on Health and Environment and other partner organisations across Europe in March 2007.
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