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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management in South-East Asia Region
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26. December 14, 2025 | Science Norway
The EU bans PFAS in children's toys. When will toys become safe?
Toys will become much safer in a few years, says researcher. In 4.5 years, all toys must be free from PFAS and carry digital passports that provide information about production and safety testing. 27. December 12, 2025 | Mongabay
Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming
Nigeria has banned a list of organochlorine pesticides since 2008, due to their potential health effects, but lab tests reveal small amounts of several such substances in soil, vegetable and soil animal samples in farm fields. 28. December 11, 2025 | BBC
Warning as lead and arsenic wash up on beach
Heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and cadmium, have been found on plastic pellets which washed up in their millions along the Sussex and Kent coast. 29. December 10, 2025 | IOL
New study links pesticide exposure to impaired brain development in South African children.
The findings suggest that routine, low-level exposure to agricultural pesticides may be affecting children’s brain development, with potential long-term effects on their cognitive skills and emotional well-being. 30. December 10, 2025 | The Guardian
Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment 31. December 10, 2025 | Civil Eats
What to Know About PFAS in Pesticides
The EPA refutes that several of its recently approved pesticides are ‘forever chemicals.’ Here’s what the science says about these complicated substances. 32. December 10, 2025 | UNDARK
Can Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Affect Gender Identity? Republish
Some scientists see it as a question worth exploring. But others say it’s dubious — and fodder for right-wing prejudice. 33. December 10, 2025 | Environmental Health News
“An escalating and underrecognised threat”
Human health, including the health of men, is a mirror of our chemical environment. Europe’s regulatory choices will determine whether the next generation live in a cleaner, healthier world — or face escalating infertility, hormonal disease, and reproductive harm. The evidence is clear, and the time to act is now 34. December 10, 2025 | Wired
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously. 35. December 10, 2025 | The Lancet Planetary Health
Exposure to plasticizer chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths each year
A recent study examined the public health risks of exposure to a mixture of common plasticizer chemicals, including bisphenol A (BPA) and eight phthalates. 36. December 9, 2025 | Fast Company
Getting rid of old furniture immediately starts lowering the toxic flame retardants in your body.
Old sofas are filled with flame retardants, which have been linked to cancer risk and neurodevelopmental issues. A new study looks at what happens in your body when you get new furniture. 37. December 9, 2025 | The Ecologist
Recycling 'worsens microplastics problem'
New laboratory research found that recycled polyester creates 55 per cent more microplastic pollution particles on average during washing than virgin polyester, which is less brittle. 38. December 7, 2025 | AP News
Toxic smog blankets New Delhi, disrupting travel and plunging air quality to hazardous levels
Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s capital on Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks, disrupting travel and causing authorities to impose the strictest containment measures. 39. December 6, 2025 | The Independent
Five ways microplastics can harm your brain and fuel diseases
Study estimated humans consume 250g of microplastics, the size of a dinner plate, every year. 40. December 6, 2025 | Euronews
High exposure to PFAS is linked to a higher risk of endocrine disruption among women
The study, published on Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, analysed blood samples for seven types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) compounds and found that certain chemicals were associated with hormonal disruption. 41. December 5, 2025 | Science of The Total Environment
Supposedly “safer” substitutes for BPA continue to drive metabolic disease globally
A recent analysis found that exposure to bisphenol chemicals — including BPA and its replacements BPS and BPF — were responsible for over 127 million cases of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome globally in 2024. 42. December 5, 2025 | VOGUE
Do You Need to Be Worried About Asbestos in Makeup Again?
The rule, which was first proposed in December 2024 as part of the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022, brought the industry closer to setting up standardized testing of asbestos in talc. 43. December 5, 2025 | Newsweek
Forever Chemicals Disrupt Placenta, May Add Risk to Pregnancies
Six common "forever chemicals"—may disrupt early placental development and endanger pregnancy health before most women are even aware they are pregnant, according to a new study. 44. December 4, 2025 | ABC
Microplastics in brains, bloodstreams
There is a new and major push to understand the level of microplastics in drinking water in Chicago and throughout the country 45. December 4, 2025 | The Guardian
High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across
Pesticide Action Network Europe study finds average concentrations 100 times higher than in tap water 46. December 4, 2025 | U.S. Right to Know
Hormone-disrupting chemicals contaminate breast milk.
The most common health problems linked to early exposure to endocrine disruptors in breast milk were effects on brain development and changes in normal thyroid hormone levels 47. December 3, 2025 | Mongabay
‘Silent epidemic of chemical pollution’ demands radical regulatory redo
The scientists found that synthesized pesticides and plasticizers contain petroleum-based waste and heavy metals such as arsenic that can make them “at least 1,000 times more toxic” than the active ingredients alone, posing chronic disease and health threats, especially to children — claims that the chemical industry denies. 48. December 3, 2025 | BBC
Delhi records 200,000 acute respiratory illness cases amid toxic air
More than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses were recorded in six state-run hospitals in Delhi between 2022 and 2024 as the Indian capital struggled with rising pollution levels, the federal government has said. 49. December 2, 2025 | Iowa Capital Dispatch
Nitrate levels in Iowa water remained high through fall
Experts see the trend as increased need for sufficient water quality monitoring 50. December 1, 2025 | Euronews
Air pollution linked to over 180,000 deaths in the EU.
Which country was hit the hardest? A new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) found that between 2005 and 2023, premature deaths attributable to fine particulate matter fell by 57 per cent.
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