Health impacts from hormone disrupting chemicals cost EU countries billions
New research, published today, finds that the costs across the EU of exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals could be over €150 billion annually in health care expenses and lost earning potential....
View ArticleEU Commission replies to our letter on misleading communication of Bisphenol...
The European Commissions DG Santé (Health) has now replied to a letter we sent to Commissioner Andriukaitis on 25th February, challenging the way in which the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) had...
View ArticleNew research strengthens link between hormone disrupting bisphenol A and...
New research, published today in the Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrinology, finds that exposure of mice to the widely-used hormone disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy may raise a...
View ArticleEU Food Authority responds to letter on misleading communication on Bisphenol...
On Friday 17th April we finally got a response to our letter to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on why their press release & public briefing on 21st January had stated that there was ‘no...
View ArticleTurtles could be the latest casualties of hormone disrupter bisphenol A
The sex of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta), native to fresh waters of North America, is normally determined by the temperature the eggs are exposed to during development, but new research shows the...
View ArticleClimate change could worsen effects of EDC pollution
In the first study of its kind, scientists have shown that climate change could amplify the negative effects of pollution from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on aquatic wildlife. Climate change...
View ArticleWe write to chair of EU Parliament Trade Committee: Chemicals must be...
On 10th of June the full European Parliament will vote on its recommendations to the European Commission regarding the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). In the...
View ArticleEU Conference on hormone disrupters: What did we learn?
CHEM Trust was among the many participants in yesterday’s European Commission conference on hormone (or endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The Commission’s Health Department (DG Santé) had...
View ArticleExposed: Impact of industry lobbying – and potentially TTIP – on regulation...
Two recent reports have highlighted the way in which certain industries have been lobbying against EU regulation of hormone disrupting chemicals. The first, by Corporate Europe Observatory and...
View ArticleProfessor Louis Guillette
Professor Louis Guillette, one of the first scientists to study hormone disruption in wildlife, sadly died on 6th August 2015. His death is a great loss to many, including those of us working to get...
View ArticleLeading health professionals agree that toxic chemicals threaten healthy...
In recent weeks the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics has expressed their concerns about the impact of exposure to toxic chemicals on reproduction and development, while scientists...
View ArticleEU Parliament starts inquiry into regulation of chemicals in food packaging...
Our food comes into contact with a whole range of food contact materials made from industrial chemicals, from food packaging to pipes. The EU has laws that are supposed to regulate the safety of these...
View ArticleEU discussing new restrictions on bisphenol A in food contact materials
The European Commission recently published a ‘road map’ proposing options for increasing controls on the use of hormone disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in food contact materials. CHEM Trust has...
View ArticleHow safe is our seafood?
Our oceans and seas have been polluted over time with a number of contaminants, from litter and plastic waste to an array of man-made chemicals which have caused numerous problems for many wildlife...
View ArticleChemicals in food contact materials: A gap in the internal market, a failure...
Food packaging, factory equipment, food utensils – almost everything we eat has been in contact with one or more of these items. The EU’s laws should ensure that chemicals used in these materials are...
View ArticleIs the EU Commission trying to allow continued use of harmful pesticides by...
Europe’s pesticide regulations aim to ensure a high level of protection of human, animal and environment health. An important part of the law is that certain harmful pesticides, including those that...
View ArticleEndocrine disruptors: ‘Better Regulation’ or better public health?
CHEM Trust, together with Health and Environment Alliance, have just published a comment piece in Euractiv: “Endocrine disruptors pose a substantial risk to public health, yet the European Commission...
View ArticleAfter a long wait, now is the time for the EU to decide on criteria to...
The European Commission has committed to finally proposing scientific criteria to identify hormone (or endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by summer 2016. They’ve already been found guilty of...
View ArticleCommission proposal on EDC criteria means human harm almost certainly needed...
The European Commission has finally presented its long delayed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) today. CHEM Trust is shocked by the proposal, which in effect means that...
View ArticleCHEM Trust calls for significant improvements as Commission consults on EDC...
The European Commission is currently consulting on its proposed criteria to identify endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). In mid-June the European Commission proposed draft criteria, which...
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