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Tag: Endocrine disruptors

  • Recent study calls for the need to warn consumers on ultra-processed foods’ harmful effects

    13 Jan 2022

    Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are foods that have been chemically or physically transformed through industrial processing. While most modern foods are processed in some way (e.g. ...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, food labelling, Marketing, ultra-processed foods, UPF

  • Consumers organization calls for a reform of the EU food packaging legislation

    21 Dec 2021

    Consumers’ concern about the safety of food packaging materials is increasing across Europe. According to data from the Eurobarometer, 86% of European consumers have worries abou...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, food contact materials, PFAS

  • Les agences européennes précisent la définition des perturbateurs endocriniens

    12 Jun 2018

    Après l’adoption fin 2017 des critères  d’identification des perturbateurs endocriniens, les agences européennes ont publié le 7 juin un document d’orientation pou...

    Tags: EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, EU, Food Safety

  • Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome ‘at safe levels’, study claims

    17 May 2018

    Study on rats said to show that the chemical, found in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, poses ‘a significant public health concern’. According to the pilot study, the substance...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Are we poisoning our children with plastic?

    20 Feb 2018

    The chemical BPA is widely added to food and drink packaging, and more than 80% of teenagers have it in their bodies. But how dangerous is it? Read the full article on The Guardian...

    Tags: Babies, BPA, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Plastics

  • MEPs back down from EU bisphenol ban

    12 Jan 2018

    The European Parliament has shied away from demanding a full ban on bisphenol A, instead approving measures that will lower the amount of the chemical that can be part of food pack...

    Tags: BPA, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Packaging, MEP

  • Six member states call for glyphosate alternatives, exit plan

    05 Jan 2018

    Six member states that opposed the re-authorisation glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, sent a letter to the European Commission last month asking the EU execu...

    Tags: Agriculture, ECHA, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • German vote swings EU decision on 5-year glyphosate renewal

    28 Nov 2017

    EU member states agreed on Monday (27 November) on a five-year renewal period for the controversial herbicide glyphosate, used by Monsanto in its Roundup product. The decision was ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Pesticides, Roundup

  • MEPs demand glyphosate phase-out, with full ban by end 2022

    24 Oct 2017

    Parliament backed a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2022 and immediate restrictions on the use of the substance, on Tuesday.   Read the full article on Eur...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Andriukaitis: ‘Enough’ with member states hiding behind the Commission on glyphosate

    10 Oct 2017

    The member states should stop hiding behind or even pointing the finger at the European Commission regarding the re-authorisation of the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, gl...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • MEPs reject Commission’s endocrine disruptor definition

    09 Oct 2017

    The European Commission will have to rewrite its definition of endocrine disruptors, after MEPs shot down the executive’s proposal in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (4 October...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Endocrine disruptors: A guilty definition

    04 Oct 2017

    French socialist MEPs are defiant against the Commission’s “weak, superficial and incomplete” definition of endocrine disruptors, blaming it on French Ecology Minister Nicol...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Endocrine disruptors: Report exposes scale of contamination as Parliament vote looms

    04 Oct 2017

    More than one-third of all fruit consumed in the EU is contaminated with residues of endocrine disrupting pesticides, according to a study published on Tuesday (3 October), a day b...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Hormone, Monsanto, Pesticides

  • EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study

    19 Sep 2017

    Exclusive: EU’s food safety watchdog recommended that glyphosate was safe but pages of report were identical to application from pesticide maker. Read the full article on The Gua...

    Tags: EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup

  • Endocrine disruptors: EU definition contains ‘too many exemptions and loopholes’

    12 Jul 2017

    After years in the pipeline, an EU-wide definition of endocrine disruptors was finally approved by member states on 4 July. But MEP Pascal Durand told EURACTIV’s partner Ouest-F...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Hormone

  • EU experts agree on criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals in pesticides

    12 Jul 2017

    Experts from the 28 EU member states approved on Tuesday (4 July) a proposed list of criteria to identify endocrine disruptors in plant protection products – a move presented by...

    Tags: Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Hormone

  • Des experts européens ont sous-estimé des études sur les dangers du glyphosate

    31 May 2017

    Des études qui mettent en évidence le lien entre plusieurs cas de cancer et le glyphosate ont été sous-estimées par les agences d’expertise européennes. C’est ce que rév...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Glyphosate

  • Pesticide residues detected in almost all European foods

    24 Apr 2017

    More than 97% of European food products contain pesticide residues, according to analyses carried out by the EU’s national authorities. EURACTIV’s partner Journal de l’Enviro...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, pesticide residues

  • Glyphosate and the crucial battle for independent science

    27 Mar 2017

    At its core, the political battle for transparency about the herbicide glyphosate is actually a battle for independent science and for the transparent and democratic functioning of...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, MEP, Pesticides

  • Endocrine disruptors: science is more potent than politics

    14 Sep 2016

    A large group of scientists from across various sectors are supporting an appeal to the European Commission regarding its proposed regulation to establish criteria for identifying ...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors

  • EFSA wants to review the chemical BPA, again

    27 Apr 2016

    A new report on the chemical compound Bisphenol A (BPA) has forced the EFSA, the EU’s food safety watchdog, to review the effects of the chemical on human health once more. Read ...

    Tags: BPA, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors

  • Endocrine disruptors’ link to infertility confirmed

    11 Apr 2016

    More and more women are finding it difficult to get pregnant, with mounting evidence suggesting chemicals used in plasticisers and pesticides are responsible. The consequences are ...

    Tags: Babies, BPA, Endocrine disruptors, Food Safety, Hormone

  • Brussels promises hormone disruptors definition ‘by this summer’

    04 Mar 2016

    The European Commission has responded to criticism over its weaknesses on health and food safety with a series of goodwill gestures on hormone disruptors and glyphosate during a vi...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, Glyphosate, Hormone

  • Hormone disrupters found in two thirds of French lettuce

    25 Sep 2015

    An investigation has found that the majority of French lettuce contains traces of hormone disrupting chemicals, some of which are banned. Journal de l’Environnement reports. ...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, France, Hormone

  • European Commission and chemicals lobby deny delaying tactics over hormone disruptors

    21 May 2015

    The European Commission and the chemicals industry have rejected claims, revealed by leaked emails in a new NGO report, that they actively sought to slow down work on the definitio...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission

  • MEPs to grill Commission over delays in tackling hormone-disrupting chemicals

    09 Mar 2015

    Plenary sessions : Growing worries that endocrine disruptors can damage your health will be raised in MEPs’ questions to health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis on Monday, 9 Marc...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission, European Parliament

  • HEAL: ‘Endocrine disruptors are one of the biggest public health threats of this century’

    16 Jan 2015

    Although hormone-disrupting chemicals are recognised as a global public health threat by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Commission’s public consultation on...

    Tags: Endocrine disruptors, European Commission

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