Health and Environment Alliance | Letters: Toxic Chemicals

HEAL joins international call for UN Food and Agriculture Organization to abandon partnership with trade industry

23rd November 2020

In response to stated plans by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to strengthen ties with a trade association whose members continue to produce highly hazardous pesticides harmful to human health and the environment, HEAL and over three hundred other organizations in over 60 countries have sent a letter to Director-General Qu Dongyu opposing the alliance.

Letter: Prohibiting the export of banned pesticides and the import of food produced with these chemicals

5th November 2020

Letter: Time to ensure the EU is on the path to a toxic-free environment

12th October 2020

Letter: Millions of citizens in the EU call for full alignment of the reformed Common Agricultural Policy with the European Green Deal

30th September 2020

Over 250 organisations and coalitions representing millions of citizens have urged EU leaders to make sure the CAP negotiations shape a policy that reflects the EU Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy.

Letter: Call to continue progress on the SCIP database, for consumers and the planet

29th September 2020

Dear EU Commission Vice-President Timmermans: Time to ensure that the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability delivers a toxic free environment

24th July 2020

Letter: The EU Parliament has huge opportunity to protect health in EU chemicals strategy

24th June 2020

EEB & HEAL urge governments to restrict substances in tattoo inks & permanent make-up ahead of REACH Committee Meeting

18th June 2020

1 in 10 Europeans has a tattoo. On 23 June, EU governments will discuss a restriction on tattoo inks and permanent make-up. HEAL and the EEB wrote a letter to the REACH Committee, urging members to restrict these health-harming chemicals.

Over 40 million health professionals urge G20 leaders to ensure a Healthy Recovery

26th May 2020

On May 26, 2020, over 350 organisations representing over 40 million health professionals and over 4,500 individual health professionals from 90 different countries, wrote to the G20 leaders calling for…

Chromium trioxide: health and environment NGOs express concerns over two draft decisions ahead of REACH committee

8th May 2020

HEAL, A.M.L.P, France Nature Environnement & Générations Futures interpellent les autorités françaises sur les mesures de suivi prévues pour protéger la santé et l’environnement

6th May 2020

Open letter from the Break Free From Plastic movement: A post COVID-19 world – Enabling lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis for a more resilient economy

27th April 2020

NGO’s urge REACH Committee to reject authorisation for a use of chromium trioxide

23rd April 2020

CSOs open letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy by end April 2020

15th April 2020

On 14 April, 39 civil society organisations have sent a joint letter to Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioner Kyriakides, Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski and Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, highlighting the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy without delaying further by end April 2020.

Open letter: The European Green Deal needs to cut pesticides and switch to agroecology

31st March 2020

Joint letter to EU institutions on COVID-19 response

30th March 2020

HEAL is one of the signatories (together with WWF, BirdLife Europe, EEB, CEE Bankwatch, CAN Europe, Transport & Environment and NatureFriends International) of a joint letter to Commission President von…

Joint open letter: Principles for a #JustRecovery from COVID-19

26th March 2020

HEAL is a signatory of a letter coordinated by 350, calling for a global and financial response to COVID-19 that ensures a just recovery, putting health, fairness, people and solidarity…

45 NGOs write to EU Health & Food Safety Commissioner: Pesticide residues in agricultural imports must not compromise public health and the European Green Deal

11th March 2020

Alerte Médecins Pesticides & HEAL: Courrier concernant le cyprodinil, le mépanipyrim et le pyriméthanil

6th March 2020

Open letter from “Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation” coalition: Fraud at GLP-certified laboratories

4th March 2020