Bisphenol A - the new silent killer? (August 5th, 2009) :
Antidote Europe has launched a public campaign regarding the dangers of bisphenol A and has duly informed the new president of the European Parliament.
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Bisphenol A - the new silent killer? (August 5th, 2009) : Antidote
Europe has launched a public campaign regarding the dangers of
bisphenol A and has duly informed the new president of the European
Parliament.
Bisphenol A - a chemical time bomb? (July 8th, 2009) : It is
difficult to understand why food safety agencies continue to place
their trust in ambiguous animal data when human data is readily
available. The fact that DES and BPA share striking similarities in
their structures is extremely worrisome and lends weight to the
possibility that BPA is a "chemical time bomb" in terms of our
health.
EU directive lags woefully behind the science (March
30th, 2009) : With a
crucial vote about to take place on Tuesday 31st March, by the
Agriculture Committee (AGRI) of the European Parliament, Antidote
Europe has written to all members of this committee, urging them to
include a clause in the revised version of the 86/609 directive, to
facilitate the adoption of any scientifically sound, non animal
method, based on the "weight of evidence" principle. Such a clause
would significantly increase the scope and application of non
animal methods in practice.
Bisphenol still allowed in dummies for babies in the EU
(August
25th, 2008) : According to
EFSA, the exposure of the human foetus to bisphenol A would be
negligible because the mother rapidly metabolizes and eliminates
this substance from her body. A conclusion in contradiction with
basic pharmacokinetics knowledge.
Public health group cautions EU not to use animal organs
(June 17th, 2008) : Antidote
Europe issued an urgent caution against the idea of transplanting
animal organs into people.
Bisphenol A: Authorities warned of health risk (May 19th, 2008) : The results
of our analysis of bisphenol A using toxicogenomics techniques have
been conveyed to the French and European agencies for food safety
and to Canadian Health Authorities.
Open letter to Alan Johnson MP regarding cervical cancer mass
vaccination (May 7 th, 2008) : Concerns
about the safety of this vaccine.
GM: let true science prevail! (April 11 th, 2008) : Open letter
to the French Prime Minister Mr François Fillon; ministers for the
Environment: Mr Jean-Louis Borloo and Ms Nathalie
Kosciusko-Morizet; and the minister for Health Ms Roselyne
Bachelot, concerning the current debate on genetically modified
(GM) products.
EC meets worried scientists (February 12th, 2008) : Antidote
Europe and Equivita met Franco Frattini, Vice-President of the
European Commission.
Justice for our health (February 5th, 2008) : Antidote
Europe has lodged a complaint with the European
Mediator.
Towards creating a cleaner and safer environment
(October 9th, 2007) : The group
Antidote Europe has submitted a non-animal test method to the EU
authorities that would carefully screen any chemical before it
could be put on the market.
Toxicity testing in the 21st century (August 30 th, 2007) : A recent
report published by the US National Research Council (NRC),
entitled 'Toxicity
testing in the Twenty-first century: a vision and a
strategy' acknowledges the
importance of using biological material of human origin, in
conjunction with the modern science of toxicogenomics. Antidote
Europe sees this as a positive development and as confirmation of
its own novel approach to the science of toxicity testing, which,
together with the efforts of other European groups, has ensured
that these methods will be incorporated in the new EU chemicals
testing program, REACH, which entered into force on 1st June,
2007.
Antidote Europe's expert contribution recognised
(June 25th, 2007) : The tests
results obtained by Antidote Europe, based on the toxicogenomic
evaluation of 22 chemical substances that are now registered on an
international database, is a very positive sign
indeed.
REACH : obsolete from birth (June 4th, 2007) : At its
coming into force, the European REACH regulation on chemical
substances implies toxicity tests of which the reliability has
never been proved, qualified of "simply bad science" by a
scientific responsible of the European Commission and longer and
more expensive than modern and reliable tests already
available.
The candidates are not very eloquent on the subject of preventive
health measures (April 18th, 2007) : Among those
presenting candidates for the presidential election, the LCR has
been the only political party to reply favourably and precisely to
our questionnaire on the necessary preventive health measures. The
Socialist Party and the UMP say they are concerned about prevention
and research but it does not appear from their replies that they
are considering really new approaches.
Forgotten in the campaign : our health (April 2nd, 2007) : A
questionnaire on this subject was sent to the twelve candidates in
the presidential election.
The Belgian Senate attentive to scientific toxicology
(March 1st, 2007) : After
adopting a "motion for a resolution" aiming at the creation of a
toxicogenomics center, the Social Affairs Committee of the Belgian
Senate organised a hearing on alternative methods to animal
experimentation.
Obsolete toxicology and human health in peril (February 12th, 2007) : After the
adoption of the REACH regulations, Antidote Europe reminds Mr.
Barroso that he has not answered the 140 associations from 12
countries, representing more than 1,200,000 European citizens, who
ask that chemical substances responsible for cancer and other
serious diseases be tested with truly scientific
methods.
Europeans demand a reliable assessment of chemical's
toxicity (April 25th, 2005) : Supported by
several associations working in different fields in different
fields in different countries, Antidote Europe wrote to the
Presidents of European Commission and Parliament informing them of
the existence of the Scientific Toxicology Programme and asking for
toxicological tests on animals to be banned in the REACH
project.
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