HEAL joins international call for UN Food and Agriculture Organization to abandon partnership with trade industry
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.
HEAL response to the Beating Cancer Plan roadmap
On 4 February 2020, the European Commission launched an EU-wide public consultation on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan running for 12 weeks as well as a consultation on the roadmap for…
Dear Minister: Voice your support to non-renewal of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl
Exposure to the pesticide chlorpyrifos harms children's brains. Yet it continues to be one of the most commonly used pesticides in Europe. HEAL calls on all European health, environment and agriculture ministers to support the non-renewal of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl.
Will EU ministers support the ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos?
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.
33 organisations call for EU food policy and Vice President for Food – open letter to candidates for the presidency of the European Commission
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.
Letter to European Parliament – please help ban brain-harming pesticide
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.
Organisers of European Citizens’ Initiative call for greater transparency of food safety decisions before upcoming EU elections
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.
Organisers of #StopGlyphosate Citizens’ Initiative call on EU Parliament to amend proposed General Food Law revision
As discussions about a European Commission proposal on the transparency of EU food safety data are underway in both the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, organisers of the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens’ Initiative warn that the proposal must be amended in order to live up to its promising objectives.
HEAL and the European Cancer Leagues urge EU ministers to reject European Commission proposal on glyphosate
[This letter was sent to all Environment, Health, and Agriculture Ministers of the European Union member states on 23 October 2017] Dear Minister, The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) – a membership…
HEAL asks the European Parliament environment committee to support proposed objection to glyphosate proposal
[This letter was sent to all members of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on 18 October 2017] Dear Member of the European Parliament, As…
HEAL urges MEPs to reject European Commission’s unlawful and insufficient proposal on endocrine disruptors
Dear MEP, As a membership network of over 70 public interest organisations aiming to promote and protect people’s health through environmental action, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) would like to…
