EDC-Free Europe

07/11/2025

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11/07/2025

📣 The -Free Europe Coalition urges EU decision-makers to uphold the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability commitments in the revision.

Stronger protections from harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are long overdue — the EU must act to better protect health and the environment.

📄 Read the full statement:
🔗 https://www.edc-free-europe.org/articles/european-developments/edc-free-europe-calls-for-more-efficient-protection-from-endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-in-reach

28/05/2025

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 “𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐔 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧?

Currently, the Cosmetic Products Regulation prohibits the use of substances classified as carcinogenic. Exemptions can only be granted under strictly defined and limited conditions.

In a so-called “Reality Check Workshop” a few days ago, the European Commission presented proposals on how to “simplify” parts of the EU chemicals regulation. One file in line for the exercise: the Cosmetic Products Regulation.

During the meeting, the Commission proposed several changes to the regulation which would make it easier to use carcinogenic chemical substances in cosmetics and personal care products.

The scope of this regulation includes many everyday products such as toothpaste, mouthwash, deodorant, and sunscreen.

Some chemical substances with carcinogenic properties are also known endocrine disruptors, affecting the estrogen receptor, for example, and playing a role in the development of breast cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer. The effects of these chemicals are most concerning at key developmental stages: during pregnancy, infancy, and adolescence.

During this year’s European Week Against Cancer, we recommend:

🔵 Cancer prevention needs to be a true priority for the EU and across all policy and legislative sectors.

🔵 The legislative provisions that keep carcinogens— including those that act via the disruption of hormone systems—out of our cosmetics and personal care products should not be lifted.

🔵 Protection against EDCs needs to be improved by extending the current rules for the use of carcinogens in cosmetics to chemicals which are classified as endocrine disruptors.

06/05/2025

🧪 This Horizon article highlights the research and findings of the five-year FREIA project, an initiative which explored the risks that EDCs pose to women's reproductive health.

EDC-Free Europe priority number 4️⃣ highlights the need to ⤵️

🔹 Enhance scientific knowledge of the health and environmental effects of exposure to EDCs, including ensuring that the results of the EURION projects will be transferred to the regulatory system.

Read the article 📰➡️ https://ow.ly/9P7r50VNGeG

Read more about our 7 priorities to protect people and environment from harm caused by endocrine-disrupting chemicals ➡️ https://ow.ly/5CqB50VNGeE

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are everywhere – from plastics to cosmetics – silently affecting our reproductive health. EU-funded researchers are shedding light on the risks and developing better tests to protect future generations. By Vittoria D’Alessio Professor Majorie van Duursen, a Dutch...

24/04/2025

⚠️ We're exposed to harmful endocrine disruptors daily; synthetic chemicals that interfere with our natural hormone system.

🌍 Learn more about how EDCs affect our health from our infographic, available in 10 EU languages: https://www.edc-free-europe.org/articles/european-developments/infographic-explains-why-and-how-the-eu-must-protect-people-s-health-and-the-environment-against-endocrine-disruptors

24/04/2025

Today is !

Join The European Society of Endocrinology and the world endocrine community in raising awareness about the importance of good hormone health.

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World Hormone Day brings together the endocrine community to promote endocrine health – Because Hormones Matter. Find out more.

10/04/2025

Today might mark the final negotiation on the revised EU Toys Safety law—a crucial opportunity to prioritise children's health by protecting them from harmful chemicals.

To ensure the highest level of protection, the regulation must include the following:
🟠 A ban on PFAS - the hashtag
🟠 A ban on the hashtag group of chemicals, to reduce children's exposure to these endocrine disruptors

There can be no justification for continuing to use these harmful chemicals in toys when their effects have been known for decades. Children and families deserve full protection with no further delay.

Today might mark the final negotiation on the revised EU Toys Safety law—a crucial opportunity to prioritise children's health by protecting them from harmful chemicals. To ensure the highest level of protection, the regulation must include the following: 🟠 A ban on PFAS - the ...

24/03/2025

Could you be our new EDC-Free Europe Coordinator in Brussels?

🔹Are you a strategic thinker, passionate about creating change?

🔹Do you have a good understanding of chemical and pesticide pollution issues, especially regarding EDCs?

🔹Do you have at least 3 years of experience in a programme management or network coordination role within an NGO setting?

As our EDC-Free Europe Coordinator, you’ll be responsible for the EDC-Free Europe secretariat hosted by HEAL and you’ll coordinate its campaign and advocacy activities. You’ll provide effective planning and implementation of the campaign’s advocacy activities, which includes monitoring and strategic analysis of relevant EU and national policy processes, you’ll lead membership development and stakeholder engagement and represent the campaign externally.

More details ➡️ https://env-health.zohorecruit.eu/jobs/Careers/70809000000832003/EDC-Free-Europe-Coordinator?source=CareerSite

Please share this vacancy if you know someone might be a good fit.

05/03/2025

At EDC-Free Europe, we are urging the European Commission to propose non-renewal of endocrine disrupting pesticides fenoxaprop-P-ethyl and fludioxonil. These pesticides have been recently defined as substances with endocrine-disrupting properties by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

The consequences of endocrine disruption include:
⚠️ delayed sexual maturation
⚠️ decreased anogenital distance in males
⚠️ increased oestrus cycle in females

These substances, initially approved until 2018 and later extended until 2025, pose a serious public health risk. Keeping these substances on the market, with the new evidence on their endocrine disrupting properties, directly contradicts the objective of Regulation 1107/2009, concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, to ensure a high level of protection for human health and the environment, in line with the precautionary principle.

Read the letter ➡️ https://ow.ly/642X50VaPCQ

14/02/2025

❓What key actions are needed to ensure the EU regulatory framework reflects the latest science and tackles the urgent need to reduce—and ultimately eliminate—exposure to ?

Priority number 6️⃣👇

View all 7️⃣ priorities here: 🔗https://ow.ly/nffX50UhzO6

12/02/2025

📢 EDC-Free Europe partners are calling for the highest level of protection for children and their families from harmful substances in toys.

The ongoing negotiations between the Council of the European Union, European Parliament and European Commission on the revision of the EU Toy safety regulation are a crucial opportunity to protect children from harmful chemicals. To ensure the highest level of protection, it must include the followi...

10/02/2025

❓What key actions are needed to ensure the EU regulatory framework reflects the latest science and tackles the urgent need to reduce—and ultimately eliminate—exposure to ?

Priority number5️⃣👇

View all 7️⃣ priorities here: 🔗https://ow.ly/nffX50UhzO6