News: Dec 18, 2019
The Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Margot Wallström will visit FRAM on the 28 February 2020 for seminar about European Chemical Policy and lessons from REACH for the new Commission's strategy for a pollution free environment outlined in the recently published European Green Deal.
"Our blood contains several endocrine disrupting chemicals" was the title of a recent debate paper in one of the major Swedish newspapers in November. Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallström had her blood tested and it resulted in a list of man-made chemicals, among these endocrine disrupters. Margot Wallström, Jytte Guteland (Swedish member of the European Parliament) togheter with Prof. Åke Bergman recently wrote the debate article in Dagens Nyheter demanding that the new EU Health and Environment Commissioner should take action to phase out all endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Commitment to Chemical policy is not new to Margot Wallström, she has been working in the area for a long time and was the European Commissioner for the Environment 1999-2004. She was responsible for the White Paper that was presented 2001 and the origin of the current REACH legislation in Europe. REACH is the European Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, in force since 2007.
In this open FRAM seminar on February 28th we welcome researchers, students and the public to listen to Margot Wallström present on European Chemical Policy and lessons from REACH for the new Commission's strategy for a pollution free environment outlined in the recently published European Green Deal.
See all the details and register here.
Read more on the European Commission website:
European Green Deal 2019
REACH (EC 1907/2006) aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances.
”White Paper on the Strategy for a future Chemicals Policy” 2001
"Presence of persistent chemicals in the human body results of Commissioner Wallstrom’s blood test" 2003
Read more about the recent study and the debate paper:
Environmental pollutants in blood from Margot Wallström and Jytte Guteland 2019
In Swedish: Vårt blod innehåller flera hormonstörande ämnen (Dagens Nyheter) 2019
Originally published on: fram.gu.se
