Health and Environment Alliance

Webinar: “The Global Glyphosate Study: the most comprehensive study on world’s most-used pesticide ever”

14th June 2021

Join us for a special webinar organised by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) in collaboration with the Ramazzini Institute, where lead scientists will present the ongoing Global Glyphosate Study, the largest and most comprehensive toxicological study ever undertaken on a pesticide.

Letter to EU Food Safety Authority on the peer-review status of several pesticide active substances, including endocrine disruption assessment

10th May 2021

HEAL position on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive

12th April 2021

HEAL response to public consultation on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUD) Directive

12th April 2021

HEAL has submitted a response to the public consultation on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUD) Directive as well as published a position on the topic. The SUD revision is…

If Europe really wants to beat cancer, it needs to drastically reduce environmental pollutants and action its Zero Pollution ambition

3rd February 2021

Today the European Commission launched the Beating Cancer Plan, marking the beginning of a new era in cancer prevention. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) has welcomed the ambitious plan as a major step forward to prevent cancer by preventing pollution.

4 demands for an ambitious Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

1st February 2021

Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan has the potential to mark the beginning of a new era in cancer prevention. But the EU’s response to the growing challenge of tackling the leading cause of deaths in the EU can only succeed if it includes hands-on strategies to address environmental pollutants.

HEAL joins international call for UN Food and Agriculture Organization to abandon partnership with trade industry

23rd November 2020

In response to stated plans by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to strengthen ties with a trade association whose members continue to produce highly hazardous pesticides harmful to human health and the environment, HEAL and over three hundred other organizations in over 60 countries have sent a letter to Director-General Qu Dongyu opposing the alliance.

Survey shows almost 50% of Belgians are unaware of health-harming endocrine disrupting chemicals in daily lives

19th November 2020

Results from a new survey published by the Belgian Independent Health Insurance Funds (Mutualités Libres / Onafhankelijke Ziekenfondsen) reveal nearly half of Belgian citizens have little knowledge of what endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are and how they can impact our health.

Letter: Prohibiting the export of banned pesticides and the import of food produced with these chemicals

5th November 2020

EU chemicals strategy: speedy implementation steps key to truly protect people’s health

14th October 2020

Environmental health advocates have welcomed today’s release of the European Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability as a major step forward in the delivery of Europe’s Zero Pollution Objective. They however insisted…

HEAL response to public consultation on combined evaluation roadmap/inception impact assessment of the proposed revision of the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides

31st August 2020

European Parliament environment committee demands a health-first approach to EU chemicals strategy

30th June 2020

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) applauds MEPs for supporting ambitious proposals in favour of a shift towards a ‘health and environment-first’ approach in European chemicals legislations, in order to reduce people’s exposure to mixtures of harmful substances, prevent diseases, and support the transition to a non-toxic circular economy.

HEAL requests intervention in industry legal challenge of European non-renewal of chlorpyrifos-methyl

10th June 2020

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) today announced having requested the right to intervene in a legal challenge recently launched against the non-renewal of pesticide active substance chlorpyrifos-methyl at the…

HEAL and European Cancer Leagues launch infographic illustrating how Europe can prevent cancer by tackling environmental pollutants

25th May 2020

To mark the start of the European Week Against Cancer 2020, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the European Cancer Leagues (ECL) have teamed up to launch an infographic telling the story behind environmental cancer prevention.

New science commentary: How fossil fuel-derived pesticides and plastics harm health, biodiversity, and the climate

21st May 2020

A new commentary published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology shows how three global health threats - chemical pollution (including endocrine disrupting chemicals), loss of biodiversity and climate change - are more strongly interlinked than previously thought by their common origins in fossil fuels such as coal, oil, or gas, including that derived from fracking.

Webinar: Glyphosate: review of animal carcinogenicity data and epigenetic impacts

13th May 2020

Open letter: The European Green Deal needs to cut pesticides and switch to agroecology

31st March 2020

45 NGOs write to EU Health & Food Safety Commissioner: Pesticide residues in agricultural imports must not compromise public health and the European Green Deal

11th March 2020

Alerte Médecins Pesticides & HEAL: Courrier concernant le cyprodinil, le mépanipyrim et le pyriméthanil

6th March 2020

Open letter from “Citizens for Science in Pesticide Regulation” coalition: Fraud at GLP-certified laboratories

4th March 2020

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