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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11551

14 May 2016
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
Cancer at work, Commission sets upper limits for 13 carcinogens

Brussels, 13/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is finally doing something about exposure to cancer-causing chemicals in the workplace. More than five years after first announcing it, on Friday 13 May, it unveiled a series of upper limits on 13 carcinogens, saying that the move should save 100,000 lives over the next fifty years.

The Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, Marianne Thyssen, said this was “a question of life or death, and also of employment and...

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