Health and Environment Alliance | Letters: Toxic Chemicals

Will EU ministers support the ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos?

25th July 2019

The governments of the 28 Member States of the European Union are in the process of deciding on the future of a health-harming pesticide: chlorpyrifos. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), together with other civil society organisations, has written directly to all environment, health and agriculture ministers to express their concerns about the toxicity of this substance.

36 organisations call for EU food policy and Vice-President for Food in open letter to EU Commission President

17th July 2019

For a green reform of the Common Agricultural Policy – Open letter to the EU Parliament Agriculture Committee

9th July 2019

The Coalition for Sustainable Food Systems and Integrated Food Policy - of which HEAL is a member - is calling on the EU Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) to conduct a fair and green reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

European Commission fails to publish outcome of a fitness check on Europe’s chemicals legislation

17th June 2019

Mere weeks before a high-level conference on the future of the European Union’s chemicals policy, the European Commission has not yet published the ‘raison-d’être’ for the event: the outcome of an evaluation of all chemicals policies except REACH.

33 organisations call for EU food policy and Vice President for Food – open letter to candidates for the presidency of the European Commission

9th May 2019

Thirty-three leading campaign groups, farming organizations, and think tanks have come together to call on the next European Commission President to put an EU food policy in place. Read our letter today.

Civil society organisations demand the removal of E171 from the EU list of permitted food additives

7th May 2019

HEAL letter on EU Sibiu Summit

29th April 2019

NGOs urge immediate action to stop toxic recycling in the EU

24th April 2019

Leading European health and environmental organisations are urging governments to withdraw the Stockholm Convention recycling exemptions for persistent organic pollutants used as flame retardant chemicals.

NGOs express concerns about EU regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants

13th March 2019

Seven health and environment groups have written to European environment ministers, members of the EU Parliament and Commission to express concerns about the sum limit that includes DecaBDE in the regulation recast for persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

21 Civil society groups call for rejection of DEHP and Titanium Dioxide to protect health and environment

4th March 2019

HEAL joins other civil society groups in calling on members of the EU REACH Committee to protect human health and the environment in their upcoming discussions on the chemicals DEHP and Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) on 7 March.

EU Environment Ministers have opportunity to protect our health from EDCs

20th February 2019

In an upcoming Council meeting on 5th March, EU Environment Ministers have an opportunity to call on the EU Commission to develop specific proposals for how the European Union can systematically reduce human and environmental exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).

EDC-Free Europe & Green 10 urge EU Commission for plans on non-toxic environment

12th February 2019

The EDC-Free Europe campaign and the Green 10 - a coalition of ten of the largest environmental organisations and networks active on the European level - urge the EU Commission to deliver on its promise to publish its 2018 plans for a non-toxic environment.

EU committee to discuss large number of chemicals that impact the health of thousands of citizens

11th February 2019

This week a EU committee will discuss and potentially vote on a large number of chemicals classification and labelling, restriction and authorisation proposals. If granted, these authorisations will allow the…

Members of EU Parliament have chance to ask EU Commission about concrete plans to protect health from toxic chemicals

21st January 2019

This week, Members of the EU Parliament will have the opportunity to engage in a public debate with the European Commission about its plans to reduce harmful exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).

Health groups deeply concerned about proposal to remove reference to health from CAP objectives

26th November 2018

Letter to European Parliament – please help ban brain-harming pesticide

22nd November 2018

On Monday 26 November, members of the EU Parliament Environment Committee will exchange views on the extension of chlorpyrifos with the European Commission. HEAL urges them to protect our health and to ask for an immediate ban on this pesticide in the EU.

22 Civil Society Organisations Response to the EU Recast Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants

13th November 2018

22 Civil Society Organisations have sent a letter to Members of the European Parliament in regards to the EU Recast Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), urging them to uphold the EU’s international obligations on POPs under the Stockholm Convention.

Seven NGOs express concerns ahead of vote on authorisation for several carcinogenic chromate substances

24th October 2018

HEAL joins six environment NGOs to express concerns on the authorisation for several uses of carcinogenic chromate substances, ahead of a REACH Committee Meeting.

Organisers of European Citizens’ Initiative call for greater transparency of food safety decisions before upcoming EU elections

17th October 2018

The organisers of the European Citizens’ Initiative to Ban Glyphosate call on the EU to conclude the decision-making process for greater transparency of food safety decisions before the upcoming European election.

Response to the EU Recast Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants

5th October 2018

HEAL has joined a group of eleven health and environment groups to express concerns about some of the proposed amendments and changes to the Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

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