Up until now brand owners and other companies in the textile sector had to invest a lot of money in chemical expertise in order to produce toxic free products, an investment that can be hard to motivate, especially for SMEs and start-ups.
Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) have released an English version of a film about pregnancy and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The film, also available in German and Dutch, gives practical advice for pregnant women on how to avoid EDCs.
Arnika (Czech Republic), CINEST (Kazakhstan) and EcoMuseum Karaganda (Kazakhstan) have released a new publication entitled "Chemicals and Life". The Russian-language publication provides guidance for people who are trying to avoid chemical contaminants and want to understand how to protect themselves.
April 2015, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, a toxics watchdog, has thrown its support behind the move by the Indonesian health authorities to ban hazardous lipsticks with arsenic and lead content.
IPEN has provided comments to the fourth version of the Chemicals in Products (CiP) Programme developed as an emerging policy issue in the frame of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). The CiP Programme has the central principle that all stakeholders (those along the supply chain and those outside it) should have relevant and reliable information to make informed decisions about chemicals in products.
