FoE Europe - Corporate Accountability

Health threats

Cutting the risk

Safer future

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

Links to campaign pages across the EU

"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)

Links

BEUC Chemical Cocktail

Chemical Reaction

European Environmental Bureau

Greenpeace European Unit

HEAL

International Chemical Secretariat

Pesticide Watch

WECF nesting project

WWF EPO

Retailers and risky chemicals

Risky chemicals include those which can bio-accumulate in our bodies or harm our hormone systems. These chemicals can be found in many everyday products like toys, cosmetics and furniture.

Friends of the Earth wants retailers to phase out the use of risky chemicals. We have conducted our own research to find out who says they're taking most action on this issue and we have created a retailer league table based on this information.

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

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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

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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

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

My Voice how to demand better protection of human health and the environmnent from hazardous chemicals

REACH Economic Facts and Figures (A briefing by Friends of the Earth Europe, EEB, Greenpeace, Health & Environment Alliance and Women in Europe for a Common Future)

"What did you buy today...?" What we know, what we do not know, and what we ought to know about chemicals in everyday household items (August 2006)

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