Press Release: Commission launches Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010

The European Commission launched an action plan to reduce diseases caused by a polluted environment on 9 June 2004. The plan would develop an EU system integrating information on the state of the environment, the ecosystem and human health. It identifies 13 actions, which include initiatives on how to better understand the environment-health link and establish how environmental exposure leads to epidemiological effects. It also focuses on research activities, for instance on asthma/allergy, neuro-developmental disorders, cancers and endocrine disrupting effects. It calls for awareness-raising on risks affecting the citizen, and training of professionals in environment and health issues. It also looks at the feasibility of human biomonitoring at European level, i.e. monitoring of blood, urine or hair samples to measure exposure to environmental pollutants.

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/04/143&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/04/143&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/health/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/health/index_en.htm

European Commission: Summaries of EU legislation: Public health: Health determinants: environment: Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010 http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/public_health/health_determinants_environment/l28145_en.htm

ESO: In Focus: Protecting future generations from environmental pollution, June 2003 http://www.europeansources.info/record/protecting-future-generations-from-environmental-pollution-june-2003/

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