The EDC-Free Europe coalition, of which HEAL is a member, has launched a new infographic illustrating the harmful impacts of exposure to known and suspected endocrine disruptors on our health and the environment.
The survey findings of the HEAL campaign report entitled “Halting the child brain drain: Why we need to tackle global mercury contamination” demonstrate women’s current levels of mercury as a concrete example of low-level exposure to an environmental toxic.
Exposure to mercury in the diet and perhaps at work may significantly harm the health of her unborn child. Mercury has been scientifically shown to harm human health even at low doses. It is especially dangerous for the mental development of the child when exposure takes place in the womb.
The environmental health campaign by the Health and Environment Alliance and the global coalition Health Care Without Harm represents an example of a women-centred, local and global advocacy, research and information project on an important, emerging issue in women’s health. Results from the “bio monitoring” of women’s hair for mercury provided a key advocacy tool for raising awareness within the European Parliament and in the media worldwide.
An article based on the report was also published in Women & Environments International Magazine a Canadian journal that examines women’s multiple relations to their environments.
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