04/02/2019 (Agence Europe) – Firefighters are reported to be particularly exposed to carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxics, said the EPSU, the union of public service employees in Europe, on Monday 4 February. Firefighters would thus be particularly exposed to prostate cancer and skin melanomas. The EPSU calls for a strengthening of the European regulatory framework, the extension of the precautionary principle and the substitution principle in REACH, the regulation aimed at better...