39 SOCIAL GROUPS REACTIVE DEMAND A SHOE THAT THE POLICIES AGAINST CHEMICAL POLLUTION
Letter sent to Prime Minister, Mr D. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
denounced the negligence of the Government before such consequences as the increased incidence of diseases such as cancer from chemical exposure
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In the letter, the undersigned groups require the president to exercise its responsibility and take urgent action to rising cases of diseases resulting from exposure to chemicals. In recent years, some diseases such as cancer, reproductive problems, hormonal disorders, immune disease and neurological problems have reached very disturbing figures.
The signatories have demonstrated how Each year thousands of people with respiratory diseases, skin, nervous system and cardiovascular diseases from exposure to toxic substances at work. In this regard, it has detected an incidence of occupational cancer of between 2,933 and 13,587 new cases and mortality from this cause a minimum of 1,833 and a maximum of 8,214 workers. also warn of the risks they are exposed population and its consequences, because, today 100% of the English population in the body has significant concentrations of toxic substances such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The scientific evidence on the harm caused by chemical pollutants on health and the environment shows the urgent need to reduce the exposure of the population and the environment to these agents.
Despite the gravity of the situation in the last parliament there has been a systematic neglect of the few policy initiatives to prevent and control these risks to public health, environment and occupational health. Notably the oblivion into which they have fallen the National Implementation Plan (NIP) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2007 and has not been run almost any line of action, the National Health Plan and Environment, the dioxin inventory, the inventory of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), control of priority substances in water, etc. In the letter to Zapatero is recalled that no Civil Service has a general assessment of the situation of chemical hazard or a strategy to prevent goals and concrete action lines.
The situation is complicated by the dispersion of powers . Only in the central government powers are divided among eight ministries and there are hundreds of addresses, branches and departments involved, each with its own priorities and criteria. There is no body or network that coordinates the absence of political integration. However, in the past two years has slowed the effort to integrate policies through the creation of a Sustainability Chemical Agency, which was proposed in the previous legislature and which appeared after the election program of the PSOE.
These policies are applied in a questionable and limited. Only do what is strictly required by law. The central government is now a simple transmitter bureaucratic European regulations and does not even have the capacity to contribute to discussions on chemical risk management at European and international .
The letter has an impact on health is a fundamental right is being infringed and that the current economic crisis is not an argument for abandoning the political responsibility to protect public health but also offers a historic opportunity to promote policies, programs, services and products that protect people and the environment of chemical risks.
input Leire Pajin, Rosa Aguilar and Valeriano Gomez in front of the main ministries involved in chemical risk management is a good opportunity to boost political, economic and cultural changes necessary to prevent chemical hazard. Preventing pollution involves reducing a huge social and environmental cost in terms of illness, deaths, life years lost or environmental cleanup.
List of signatory organizations
Afigranca Association
association "AERIAL NO - GETXO"
Association BUTTERFLY WINGS-SQM
patient organization @ s Chemical and Environmental ( AQUA)
affected Association of FM, CFS, MCS, environmental and other diseases for the protection of health and the environment (ALTEA)
State Association of People Affected by Chemical Sensitivity Syndromes Multiple, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and the Environmental Health Advocacy (ASQUIFYDE)
geobiological Studies Association (GEA)
Initiative Association NONE Danyat month per irradiance d'Antennas (INDIA)
Madrid Association of Public Health
National Association of People Affected by DMF (ANDAFED)
Association for Life Care in planet vivo (Plural-21)
Association for Environmental Illness care of Andalusia
d'Anàlisi I CENTRE PROGRAMS SANITARIS (CAPS)
CECU - Confederation of Consumers and Users
Centre d'Ecologia i Projectes Alternatius (CEPA)
Scientists for the Environment (CIMA)
CCOO
National Committee for the Recognition of Multiple Chemical Syndrome susceptibility
Standing for Public Health
Ecologistas in Action
Federation 'Ecologists of Catalonia (EDC)
Foundation for Waste Reduction and Responsible Consumption (FPRC)
Fundación Alborada
Environmental Studies Foundation of the Mediterranean (CEAM)
Ecology and Development Foundation (ECODES)
Health Foundation Geoenvironmental
Healthy Living Foundation
Greenpeace
Balearic Ornithological Group (GOB)
Institute of Work, Environment and Health (ISTAS)
League CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
MERCURIADOS
Platform FM, CFS, MCS Claim of Rights National Association
English Epidemiology Society
English Ornithological Society (SEO)
General Union of Workers (UGT)
World Association for Cancer Research (WACRA)
World Wildlife Foundation (WWF)
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