WASHINGTON, DC The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) is partnering with Clean Production Action (CPA) to present a GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals training. The GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals training will take place during the National Environmental Sustainability Summit in Detroit, Michigan. The GreenScreen is a comparative chemical hazard assessment tool used by business, government, academia, and industry to support informed substitution of chemicals and materials that are… …
Brussels An international group of environmental, legal and health NGOs[1] welcomed today’s judgment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against the European Commission’s decision to exempt decaBDE[2], a brominated flame retardant, from a list of hazardous substances banned in the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive[3]. The judgment ends a legal disagreement that arose after several Member States as well as Norway and the European Parliament took the Commission to… …
A hazardous chemical is likely to be accepted as “safe for consumer use” by the European Commission this week. Deca-BDE, which is used as a flame retardant for electrical goods and textiles and is found as a contaminant in food, is known to accumulate in the human body when ingested. If Deca-BDE is accepted as safe, confidence in the EU’s proposed chemical safety legislation, known as REACH, will be completely undermined, according to three leading public health organizations… …
A New report on substitutes for the brominated flame retardant chemical, deca-BDE, increases pressure on European Commission to maintain ban on April 19thvote in Technical Adaptation Committee (TAC). Today, the European Public Health Alliance - Environment Network (EEN), Clean Production Action and Health Care Without Harm increased the pressure to maintain the ban on the brominated flame retardant deca-BDE, commonly used in consumer electronics, by releasing a comprehensive review of available… …