Originally published October 17 2005
Environmental health expert condemns the chemical industry for global contamination
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
André Cicolella of the Greens health commission discusses the impact of 400 million tons of chemicals on public health.
July 22, 1719, the ship Grand-Saint-Antoine left Marseille for the calls of the Levant (as they were described at the time).
In Syria, the ship took on a Turkish passenger who died two days later, a victim of the plague that afflicted the region at that time.
It was the beginning of an epidemic that would cause 50,000 deaths among the 100,000 inhabitants of Marseille, 220,000 deaths in Provence, and which would only be over two years later.
The issue for Reach, an acronym for Registration Evaluation Authorization of Chemicals, is the risk evaluation of chemical substances.
Seven years ago, the European Council decided to reform the regulations in force regarding marketing of chemical substances.
It proposed a change of logic in the management of chemical risk, the principle of which is "no data, no market," a rupture with decades of a rigorously opposite procedure.
As in Marseille in 1720, economic interests arrogate the right of coming before the interests of public health to themselves, with the connivance of certain politicians.
Risk factors other than chemical substances are implicated (diet, tobacco use ...), but with the evaluation of chemical substances, we know for certain that we can dry up a part of the source of these chronic illnesses.
Moreover, it is unacceptable that this public health imperative not be imposed upon the chemical industry.
Numerous epidemiological and toxicological data show the link between this generalized chemical pollution and the growth of modern epidemics.
European citizens expect a Europe that will effectively protect them against the plagues of our own era rather than a Europe that panders to merchants.
The European Parliament's Environmental Commission refused to follow the Commission and has voted against a strengthened proposal.
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