After more than one year of parliamentary debates in the French Senate and Parliament, France adopted a law yesterday which bans BPA use in food containers for 0-3 years old in 2013 and for all other food contact uses as from January 1st 2015, with a warning labelling in the meantime.
Posted in French, How to avoid EDCs, My daily products, My food
WECF France has launched a petition urging the French Minister of Environment and the French Minister in charge of Consumer protection to ask for more protective regulation to ensure endocrine disrupting chemicals are taken out of toys.
Posted in How to avoid EDCs, My family, My home
You may not be aware, but many everyday products contain toxic chemicals that may be detrimental to your health and the health of your family. Many of the chemicals can be more toxic when they are mixed together. That is what is called the “cocktail effect”. It is in our power to help reduce this toxic effect.
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Posted in How to avoid EDCs, Videos
Breast cancer rates in England have risen by 90% since 1971. Breast Cancer UK believes that this increase cannot be attributed to lifestyle or genetic factors alone. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a known endocrine disrupting chemical. Sign our petition calling on the UK Government to ban BPA from all food and drink packaging
Posted in How to avoid EDCs
Chemicals should be defined as endocrine disruptors (EDs) on the basis of whether or not they have the ability to disrupt the functioning of the endocrine system in laboratory studies. The evidence should be drawn not only from all internationally agreed tests but also from other studies, including reviews of published scientific literature.
HEAL and CHEM Trust have produced the following briefing that explains these issues in further detail. These important ED properties should be taken into account to ensure that EDCs are correctly identified for further regulatory action.
The briefing is available in English and French and translation into German is anticipated.
Press contact: lisette@env-health.org
more information here
Posted in How to avoid EDCs
