"Parents are more and more concerned: our offices are flooded with information requests from worried mothers and fathers who are outraged because they have no means of knowing which harmful substances are in toys, and that policy makers and industry are not doing enough to protect their children’s health. They demand full disclosure of ingredients (as with cosmetics) and stricter laws that apply the precautionary principle, with zero tolerance for harmful chemicals".
by Alexandra Caterbow, senior chemicals/health policy adviser, WECF
IPEN has signed on to a letter urging U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to propose an effluent guideline for dental amalgam to reduce mercury pollution. Read the letter below:
This informational brochure was developed to (i) provide an overview of nanotechnology development in the Asia-Pacific Region; (ii) introduce the social, environmental, and health implications of nanotechnology for workers and consumers in this region; and (iii) to stimulate and strengthen stakeholders’ participation in the global and national discussions on the actions to be implemented by governments, industry, and civil society to lay out a precautionary environment for the safe develo
IPEN Participating Organization Génération Futures and the network Réseau Environnementale Santé (RES) have issued a press release wecloming a new report from the French national assembly asking for more urgent action nationally and from the European Union on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), and outlining their expectations. Read the whole release here.
Vi Waghiyi, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director at IPEN Participating Organization Alaska Community Action on Toxics, has been spotlighted on the national Collaborative on Health and the Environment's homepage. Please visit the page for an interview with Vi! http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/homepage/14052
In August 2013, IPEN Co-Chair Dr. Olga Speranskaya was interviewed on the Russian national television program "Doctor I" about hazardous chemicals in products, mainly in children's toys.
