He calls on the government to “take head-on” the issue of chemical pollution to fight infertility.
During a press conference at the National Assembly this Wednesday, environmentalist deputy Nicolas Thierry presented a proposed European resolution to revise the Reach regulation, which regulates dangerous chemical substances in the European Union.
“Cornerstone of the fight against toxic substances”, Reach is a “formidable tool” which nevertheless needs to be overhauled, insisted the deputy for Gironde Thierry, because “today, the regulation is obsolete”.
Since its entry into force in 2007, “17 years have passed and flaws have appeared.
And above all, the state of scientific knowledge has evolved considerably,” according to him.
I ask Europe to revise the regulation on the use of #chemicalsubstances in #industry: REACH.
Cornerstone of the fight against #toxics, REACH does not take into account the cocktail effect, the question of endocrine disruptions, etc.
Explanations 👇 pic.twitter.com/BgK3EooU0i
— Nicolas THIERRY (@nthierry) February 14, 2024
“Instead of promoting the idea of
demographic rearmament
, the French government should rather address a major reason for infertility which is chemical pollution,” said the elected official, referring to Emmanuel’s comments. Macron mid-January.
To respond to the increase in infertility, the Head of State announced during a press conference “a major plan to fight this scourge”.
The stated objective is to enable “the demographic rearmament” of a France where the number of births continues to decline, he declared.
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Postponed several times, the revision of the Reach regulation is eagerly awaited, as it is likely to tighten it drastically.
However, it does not appear on the European executive's work calendar for 2024. Through this proposed European resolution, the ecologist "asks the French government to weigh in with all its weight" against the new postponement of the revision, welcomed at the time with “guilty lukewarmness”, according to him.