HEAL, together with Arnika, Cancer Prevention and Education Society, CHEM Trust, ChemSec, ClientEarth, EEB, Fidra, and Zero Waste Europe have sent a letter calling on the EuropeanCommission to swiftly give a mandate to ECHA to prepare a restriction dossier for aromatic brominated flame retardants based on their recent investigation report which concludes that these substances pose a high burden to the environment.
A number of NGOs, including HEAL, sent a letter to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) calling for a strict policy on conflicts of interest in the update process for the state-of-the-science report on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
Click here to read the letter, signed by CHEM Trust, the Center of International Environmental Law (CIEL), HEJ!Support, HEAL, the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Germany, PAN Europe, and Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF).