FoE Europe - Safer Chemicals

Explore the issues

Health threats

Cutting the risk

Safer future

What is REACH?

REACH in 2008

REACH Explained
My Voice: A Consumer Guide How you can demand better protection of human health and the environmnent from hazardous chemicals

Navigating REACH
An activists' guide to using and improving the new EU chemicals legislation

More background on REACH

National campaigns

Links to campaign pages across the EU

Events

"Think about REACH while on the BEACH..." - Call to MEPs to think about - and improve - the new chemicals policy over the summer break.
(12 July 2006, European Parliament, Brussels)

"Don't dwarf REACH"- 100 garden gnomes accompanied by Friends of the Earth activists gathered by the European Parliament
(15 November 2005, Strasbourg)

100 gnomes carrying toxic symbols gathered by the European institutions
(04 October 2005, Brussels)

Toxic Ted and participants in our "REACH made easy" seminar (January 2005)

Useful links

BEUC Chemical Cocktail

Chemical Reaction

European Environmental Bureau

Greenpeace European Unit

Press releases

10 July 2008
Consumers left at risk as EFSA ignores scientific consensus on Bisphenol A

10 July 2008
NEW REPORT: Regulators shirking responsibility on Bisphenol A - Harmful chemical should be regulated under REACH

27 May 2008
New European Chemcial Agency must act on hazardous chemicals

26 June 2007
EU Parliament's modest crack-down on pesticides

25 May 2007
Too early to celebrate REACH

13 December 2006
REACH: Alive but not kicking

11 December 2006
Insecticides threaten Europe's bees

1 December 2006
REACH - a deal too far

14 November 2006
EU citizens risk falling victim to Commission’s indecision on REACH

10 October 2006
European Parliament committee backs safer chemicals rules

14 September 2006
Council strong-arms Commission on eight nasty pesticides

12 July 2006
EU lacks leadership to fight pesticides

27 June 2006
EU Council ignores the European Parliament on substituting dangerous chemicals

13 February 2006
Five years of legislation process in the EU to ban toxic chemicals: Verheugen's competitiveness agenda fatally poisons REACH

13 December 2005
Member states fail to address the chemical threat

12 December 2005
Will your government allow pollution of breast milk to continue? Competitiveness Ministers to decide on the shape of new chemicals policy

17 November 2005
Parliament votes to phase out hazardous chemicals but allows huge knowledge gaps on safety

16 November 2005
When "REACH" becomes a threat

15 November 2005
"Don’t dwarf REACH“– 100 garden gnomes accompanied by Friends of the Earth activists gathered by the European Parliament
SEE PHOTOS

04 October 2005
REACH: Parliament's lead committee backs REACH principles but falls short of guaranteeing safety information

04 October 2005
FoEE urged the Environment Committee to vote for toxics free future - 100 gnomes carrying toxic symbols gathered by the European institutions
SEE PHOTOS

23 September 2005
Commission sticks boot into REACH - Revealed: the shameful paper that member states are being asked to back

01 July 2005
REACH under attack

Press releases

24 July 2008
Consumers left at risk as EFSA ignores scientific consensus on Bisphenol A

10 July 2008
NEW REPORT: Regulators shirking responsibility on Bisphenol A - Harmful chemical should be regulated under REACH

27 May 2008
New European Chemicals Agency must act on hazardous chemicals

more

Briefings

Notes on the European Commission's proposal to create Multi--National Authorisation Zones under COM

Letters

Open letter to Commissioners Dimas and Verheugen with recommendations for REACH's reviews and for the new Chemicals Agency

Letter to MEPs regarding a cynical advert by CEFIC in the European Voice (November 2006)
Original CEFIC Ad
FoEE spoof of CEFIC ad

more

Publications

Bisphenol A in plastics: is it making us sick? A consumer guide to Bisphenol A

Blissfully unaware of Bisphenol A: Reasons why regulators should live up to their responsibilities A comprehensive review of the scientific knowledge available
regarding controversial Bisphenol A

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