Such are the economic and health costs associated with human exposure to chemicals in everyday life – 10% or more of global GDP – that they should cause a rethink of the priorities of environmental policy in Europe and the rest of the world, stated the NGO HEAL (Health and Environment Alliance) on Tuesday 5 December.
In sounding this warning, the NGO draws up on the calculation carried out in this study published the same day in Environmental Health on the costs of exposure to...