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EDC-Free campaign member Julian Schenten from @ClientEarth underlined the need to accelerate EDCs phase-out at the 6th Annual Forum on endocrine disruptors #EDCs today in the panel discussion on the #essentialuse concept:
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29 Oct 2024
EDC-Free campaign member Petra Ekblom from @chemsec will speak at the 6th Annual Forum on endocrine disruptors #EDCs today, in the panel discussion addressing the #essentialuse concept:
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🧪 Which uses of the most harmful chemicals can be considered essential, and which cannot?
🔍 Let's take a closer look at the potential of the #EssentialUse concept in EU chemicals legislation, a tool that could help better protect people's health.
👉 ow.ly/K0bF50SjTHy
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10 Jun 2024
A key consideration in the #essentialuse of #PFAS is if this use is critical for the “functioning of society”. But how do we evaluate if a use is critical for the functioning of society? Social science can answer this best.
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Check out our article on #EssentialUse published in January 2024 and the key arguments #Toxics industry has used in its lobby campaign.
Former thread below 👇👇👇
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🚨 NEW ARTICLE: How “essential” are hazardous substances?
⚠️ Find out how #Toxicsindustry is fighting to weaken EU Commission’s upcoming new tool aimed at protecting people and the planet.
#EssentialUse
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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The Commission's #EssentialUse communication is out today.
Check out our January 2024 article which mapped the corporate lobbying surrounding this topic:
corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
22 Apr 2024
🆕 Today, we adopted guiding principles for essential uses of harmful chemicals.
This aims to ensure:
đź“‘ Regulatory predictability
🧪 Faster phase-out of the most harmful substances
🔬 Investments in sustainable chemicals
More 👉 europa.eu/!rgxnqJ
#ChemicalsStrategy
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8 Apr 2024
You may have heard the terms 'non-essential' or 'avoidable' used a lot when referring to uses of #chemicals. But what does it really mean?
Our new blog reviews the #EssentialUse concept & how can it help address the chemical pollution crisis 👇
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23 Feb 2024
Looks like #EssentialUse concept, expected this week, is still being tweaked to make it more pro-business.
More here:
product.enhesa.com/995047/co…
Check out our story on corporate lobbying on this file:
corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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🏠Industry lobbying has been intense on #EssentialUse.
✊ It's vital, when the Commission finally publishes its essential use paper, that industry has not been allowed to hollow-out the ambition to get hazardous substances out of consumer products.
corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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⚠️ Following our report on corporate lobbying around #EssentialUse earlier this week, today we have submitted a complaint about unregistered lobbying by ASMoR, available here:
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
ALT Cartoon indicating a white man in a suit shrugging and saying “If we lobby but we are not in the register does it still count?”. Next to him is a cat in an open box covered in the EU flag which replies “Yes!”. The title of the cartoon is Schrodinger’s cat. By @CartoonRalph.
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Check out our new article:
How “essential” are hazardous substances?
Industry is fighting to weaken new tool aimed at protecting health and ecosystems
#EssentialUse
corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
ALT Cartoon depicting a white man talking to a white woman in front of a wasteland, a former forest where all nature has died. There are dead fish and the trees have been cut. There are empty yellow cans that read "SAFE"". The man, smiling, says: We don't need new laws, the market is working perfectly! By @CartoonRalph
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A robust #EssentialUse concept should:
➡️Protect health and environment
➡️Boost switch to safer alternatives
➡️Get industry to make better decisions about what they put in products they sell to us.
PS Thanks to @CartoonRalph for great cartoons!
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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🏠Industry has also been trying to re-interpret #EssentialUse to include as many substances & products as possible.
👶 But we really don’t need hazardous chemicals in baby pacifiers, dental floss, lipstick lids & other products we use every day.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
ALT @CartoonRalph
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🫧 #Toxicsindustry has been arguing to dilute #EssentialUse concept, saying hazardous chemicals can still be used safely.
🔎 But 'safe use' is system we have in place now, & it hasn’t stopped hazardous chemicals being used in consumer products.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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🧴 Analysis shows lobbying by #BigToxics including BASF & Exxon downstream users who put hazardous chemicals in consumer products.
đź’¸ Also we've uncovered lobbying by unregistered industry group on #EssentialUse administered by a lobby firm.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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đź’„ Proposed #EssentialUse communication should help to get hazardous chemicals out of every-day consumer products.
❌ But our new article exposes how industry is lobbying, using misleading arguments, to enable them to carry on contaminating.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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🚨 NEW ARTICLE: How “essential” are hazardous substances?
⚠️ Find out how #Toxicsindustry is fighting to weaken EU Commission’s upcoming new tool aimed at protecting people and the planet.
#EssentialUse
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2024/…
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29 Jun 2023
đź’šPresentation 3 of the #ZeroPMworkshop on Prevention
Managing #PMT/#vPvM substances in consumer products through the concepts of #essentialuse and functional substitution: a case study for #cosmetics
@R_Figuiere presents how to find safer cosmetics!đź’‹
youtu.be/ScDBtvoThc8
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New work in #ESPI by @joankevd shows that hazardous substances in cosmetic products can be phased out through the concepts of #EssentialUse and #FunctionalSubstitution ➡ doi.org/10.1039/D3EM00025G
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23 May 2023
At the #ZeroPMworskhop I had the pleasure of interviewing @SabinePahl and @ESuffill about their work on the promise and challenges of implementing the #essentialuse concept to reduce use and exposure of #PFAS and #PMT substances & how this ties in with perceptions of risk.📽️
23 May 2023
How to best engage diverse perspectives on #EssentialUse when it comes to phasing out #PFAS and achieving sustainability?
@SabinePahl and @ESuffill from @univienna were interviewed at the #ZeroPMworkshop how to address different societal viewpoints.
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youtu.be/nndkxcI_TpA
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