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Bulletin 2010 - 02
Please find below recent news on emerging science and policy developments on environmental impacts to human health, gleaned from a variety of sources.
This bulletin is provided by the Health and Environment Alliance’s Chemicals Health Monitor project. To receive more information about the project, please, send an e-mail to info@env-health.org.
To read this latest issue on-line, please, click here.
Science and Policy Developments - February - March 2010
An overview of policy developments in the EU and internationally. NEW SCIENCE • Postmenopausal breast cancer and occupational exposures • (...)Chemical in Baby Shampoos may cause skin irritation
A chemical preservative, quarternium 15, is present in many baby shampoos. It may be causing increased rates of allergic contact dermatitis, an (...)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. (...)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 (...)Children with prenatal phthalate exposure more likely to have behavioral and attention problems
Children exposed in the womb to chemicals in cosmetics and fragrances are more likely to develop behavioral problems commonly found in children (...)Lead may be linked to attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder
New research suggests that the culprit may be an old villain—lead—and what’s more it explains the causal pathway from exposure to disability. (...)US EPA takes first steps towards regulating emerging chemicals of concern
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Lisa Jackson has announced that the EPA will create a list of “Chemicals of Concern” that will be a (...)More of a REACH ‘high concern’ chemical in older than in younger women
Musk xylene, an artificial musk used as a fragrance in consumer products, was one of the first chemicals to be identified as a Substance of Very (...)Toxic Matters: New resource for reducing your exposure to everyday toxics
The Program on Reproductive Health and Environment at University of California, San Francisco, has released a new public brochure, Toxic Matters, (...)European List of most harmful substances updated: REACH candidate list now has 29 chemicals in total
In December, the European Chemicals Agency’s Member State Committee accepted the newest fifteen substances of very high concern as ‘candidate list (...)
Latest News
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European Academy of Andrology focuses on Endocrine Disruptors
The European Academy of Andrology has recently published a special issue on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the International Journal of Andrology. This special issue exclusively focuses (...) (Read more...)
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“Hazardous chemicals can be substituted”
The Danish Ecological Council, an environmental public interest group, has published a second version of their landmark 2006 booklet “Hazardous chemicals can be substituted”. The benefits of (...) (Read more...)
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“A Public Interest Guide to Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals”
The International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) Guide intends to raise awareness about the risks that flame retardants, used in a variety of consumer and professional products, pose to humans (...) (Read more...)
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BPA exposure associated with brain tumor
Chinese researchers published a one year case-study where they measured the levels of BPA in urine of hundreds of patients. After analyzing the data, the researchers found a positive association (...) (Read more...)
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Scientific colloquium on low dose response in toxicology and risk assessment
An increasing number of studies, particularly on endocrine disrupting chemicals have recently supported the idea of adverse effects at ‘low doses’. Even though the issues are still debated, the (...) (Read more...)
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EU Food Safety Authority calls for data on Bisphenol A
Although BPA is authorised in the European Union in food and beverage contact materials, the controversy around the scientific data on harmful effects of Bisphenol A continues to provoke regular (...) (Read more...)
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Low-dose effects conference to consult with international leading experts
A major international workshop, “Low Dose Effects and Non-Monotonic Dose Responses for Endocrine Active Chemicals: Science to Practice”, will be held in September in Berlin. The workshop seeks to (...) (Read more...)
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Consensus statement on origins of disease
The consensus statement from a recent conference on environmental and nutritional stressors in the developmental origins of disease is now open for signatures from scientists. “Developmental (...) (Read more...)
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