EU HEALTH INTERESTS CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ACTION IN EU STRATEGY
June 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIEEUROPE-WIDE environmental health group the Health and Environment Alliance has called on the European Commission to set up a European Union (EU) biomonitoring programme which measures chemicals contaminants accumulating in human bodies. During a Commission consultation helping it draw up Europe-wide health strategy later this year, the alliance called for data from such a biomonitoring system to feed into developing relevant "EU policy sectors and regulations". Member states' ministries and European health organisations have submitted their ideas ...
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