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earthling

Chemical Environmental Pollutants and Their Effect on Health by Aikaterini Salavoura, 2025

This book focuses on the impact of environmental chemicals on human health. Its coverage includes metals contaminating the environment, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), air pollution and endocrine disruptors. Harmful consumer products, workplace exposure, cosmetics, microplastic waste are described.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007

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Since most chemical substances are related to degenerative disorders and other communicable diseases, the proposed models of disease are analyzed, including cancer and psychiatry disorders. To provide an understanding of the mechanisms of diseases due to exposure, the book also covers basic background knowledge in genetics and epigenetic mechanisms. Oxidative stress and antioxidant mechanisms of the body are presented and how chronic inflammation and oxidative stress leads to disease. Finally, the role of a well-balanced diet and ingredients in the diet which prevent disease as well as the mechanisms of prevention are emphasized.
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MediaFaro News Digest

The EU agrees a ban on hazardous substances in toys.

The text, which will only come into force once it has been officially adopted by the member states and the European Parliament, bans PFAS, unless they are inaccessible to children, and targets endocrine disruptors.

mediafaro.org/article/20250411

A child plays in a daycare centre. | SEBASTIAN GOLLNOW / SEBASTIAN GOLLNOW/DPA
Le Monde · The EU agrees a ban on hazardous substances in toys.By Le Monde
#EU#Toys#PFAS
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Hannah Howe

Thursday 21 March 1963

Human life may be threatened by the growing use of chemicals in food production and domestic insecticides, a peer said last night. Lord Douglas of Barloch was particularly concerned about DDT. Lord Hailsham, Minister of Science, said, “I do not believe that there is any call for concern about the effects of these chemicals on human health.”

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#SocialHistory#History#Chemicals
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hanno

A fossil-free plastics plant could start production in a few years in Belgium - with a technology that is currently used to make plastics from coal. 🌿🧪🏭 #plastics #mto #chemicals #decarbonization
In September last year, A. P. Møller Holding, the largest shareholder of shipping giant 🚢 Maersk, announced the launch of the startup Vioneo. It wants to make plastics from green Methanol. This is, in my view, one of the most interesting developments in industrial decarbonization in recent months. 🧵

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CBC Montreal

Quebec adopts new code to regulate 'forever chemicals' in biosolids
Biosolids are sometimes used as natural fertilizers to provide nutrients for farmland. Quebec will introduce a new code to guarantee the safe recovery of these materials to reduce environmental and health risks.
#environmental #regulation #chemicals #agriculture #Quebec #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu

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Corporate Europe Observatory

Check out our new update to #DeregulationWatch which includes what the recent #Omnibus package could mean for accountability around the use of harmful #chemicals

DeregulationWatch exposes new developments in the #deregulation agenda. We keep it regularly updated, as a useful tool for journalists & for groups concerned with the EU's rolling back of environmental & social protection ambitions + rules.

Get in touch with tips and topics and check it out: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03

Corporate Europe ObservatoryDeregulation Watch | Corporate Europe ObservatoryCheck out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environmental, and human rights protections.
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MediaFaro News Digest

Italy and Spain back France’s plan to rescue EU chemicals industry.

A ‘critical chemicals act’ would keep the production of key molecules on EU soil, countries argue.

The call builds momentum behind France’s original proposal, obtained by POLITICO last month, which called on the European Union to declare about 15 key chemical compounds “strategic.”

mediafaro.org/article/20250313

Politico.eu · Italy and Spain back France’s plan to rescue EU chemicals industry.By Leonie Cater
#EU#Chemicals#CriticalChemicals
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