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Plastics, EDCs & Health

Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:22am

This joint report of the Endocrine Society and IPEN provides the current best knowledge about the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human health. It discusses chemicals known to be hazardous to human health yet actively used in plastics, exposures, the problem of microplastics, and the issues surrounding alternative plastics.

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BPA

Civil Society Groups Find Hazardous Chemicals BPA/BPS in Thermal Paper Receipts

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Davao City/Quezon City, Philippines Three civil society groups today urged the government and business sectors to protect workers and the general public from the adverse effects of exposure to endocrine-disrupting and cancer-linked chemicals present in thermal transaction receipts.

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https://ipen.org/documents/plastics-edcs-health

EDCs

Forskare: Plasten vi använder i vardagen gör oss mer infertila

Ungefär var tionde kvinna i världen kämpar nu med infertilitet i minst 12 månader samtidigt som mängden och kvaliteten på spermier drastiskt minskat de senaste årtiondena.
Sunday, 18 April 2021
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Stockholm, Sweden Enligt forskare är en av bovarna bakom våra fertilitetsproblem hormonstörande tillsatser i den plast som vi använder i vardagen.

– All plast innehåller tillsatsämnen och all plast är ett problem, säger Pauliina Damdimopoulou, senior forskare vid Karolinska institutet.

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EDCs

Press Release: Plastics Pose a Threat to Human Health

Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:43am
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EDCs

7 Harmful Chemical Types in Plastics

Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:36am

Although there are thousands of individual chemicals that can be described as EDCs, they fall into seven broad categories. This brief discusses what each group is, how people can be exposed, and the health impacts.

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Phthalates

One year later, the yellow rubber ducky still contains excessive phthalates despite some encouraging improvements

Results of a second investigation on the contents of phthalic plasticizers in the yellow rubber ducky
Wednesday, 02 September 2020

Report by Toxics Free Corps, China, in Chinese: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VU1uMImC6ABmZ8wr3szlKA

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Dr. Tadesse Amera, IPEN Co-Chair, welcoming participants to the meeting. To his left are Pamela Miller, IPEN-Co-Chair, and Björn Beeler, IPEN International Coordinator.

Capacity-building

IPEN 2020 Global Meeting and Forum

Monday, 09 March 2020

IPEN’s 2020 Global Meeting and Forum on Chemicals and Waste took place in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, from the 6th – 10th of February. More than 100 environmental, health and human rights leaders from over 50 countries came together to share the work they do locally and globally to ensure a just and healthy future for everyone by eliminating harm to human health and the environment from toxic chemicals.

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EDCs

FREIA Project Publishes Resources for EDCs in Women

Monday, 09 March 2020

IPEN Participating Organization HEAL has helped establish FREIA, a new EU research project developing Endocrine Disrupting Chemical (EDC) testing methods specifically focused on those EDCs that affect female reproductive health.

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EDCs

International scientists sound alarm bell over harmful chemicals coming in contact with our food

Tuesday, 03 March 2020

An international group of 33 world-renowned scientists published today a peer-reviewed consensus statement on the impact of food contact chemicals on human health and recommended improvements of the assessment of chemicals in a health-protective way [1]. Civil society groups from Europe, the U.S.

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