Twenty-two proposals on environmental health

Pesticide sales fell in 2019 (illustrative image).

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Twenty-two proposals were made on Wednesday by a parliamentary commission of inquiry to better take into account the impact on health of environmental factors of human origin, such as pesticides and endocrine disruptors.

"It took the terrible crisis caused by the epidemic we are going through to finally create a consensus around the idea that environmental health must be a priority of the 21st century", notes the deputy Sandrine Josso (Modem) in a press release.

Fight against pediatric cancers

"Cancers, obesity, diabetes, have formed favorable breeding grounds for the lethality of the Covid-19 virus", she continues, arguing that these diseases "are due, at least in part, to environmental factors of human origin, such as the use of pesticides or the ingestion of endocrine disruptors ”.

The parliamentary commission of inquiry is making 22 proposals to improve research, in particular on "combined effects (cocktail effects) and effects due to multiple low-dose exposures" and the training of doctors on environmental health.

It also proposes to take into account environmental factors in the fight against obesity as well as the creation of an “obesitologist doctor's diploma, which allows long-term care”.

According to this report, we must "place pediatric cancer at the heart of the next ten-year cancer control strategy".

The Reach regulation, which provides for the registration of chemical substances in the European Union, must "integrate endocrine disrupting effects among the toxicities taken into account in the examination of products" during its revision, according to the press release.

According to a survey, the French are very concerned about ecology and environmental health

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• Health

• Environment

• Pesticides

• Investigative committee

• Endocrine disruptors