AR-News: send letter to European Parliament (MEP)- the EU Chemicals Policy

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Van: a.c.e [mailto:a.c.e at ukf.net] 
Verzonden: woensdag 28 april 2004 22:39
Aan: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@isd-holland.nl
Onderwerp: Animal Campaign Express E-newsletter No 52
Urgentie: Hoog

Please send a polite letter to your member of European Parliament (MEP) informing him/her about the EU Chemicals Policy.

If you prefer to write to your MEP, the address is:
European Parliament, Rue Wiertz, Brussels 1047, Belgium

To find out who your MEP is, go to www.europarl.eu.int/whoswho/default.htm.

For UK M.E.Ps: http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm

For campaigners in the European Union: http://www.europarl.eu.int

++sample letter++

Dear M.E.P,

I am writing about scientific toxicity assessment of chemicals in the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) programme.

Europeans live surrounded by over 100,000 chemicals, 98% of which have never been tested for their effects on our health or the environment. The European Commission is right in deciding that these products must be assessed. However many doctors and organisations, such as Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine (DLRM), challenge the EC's projected use of traditional toxicology methods in such assessments, since these would rely on animal-based tests, which have been conclusively proved to be unreliable for human medical research.

Examination of recent health data statistics prove that we are inadvertently exposed, inside and outside our homes, to a full-blown chemical war which claims hundreds of thousands of innocent victims yearly in the EU. The board of Alliance for Responsible Science (AFRS), in which DLRM participates, has worked out a Science Based Toxicology programme (SBT) for reliable toxic risk assessment which is valid for humans and enable us to forecast long term effects.

The methods proposed are derived from those of modern biology (DNA, chips, 'reporter' genes etc). They are fast, allowing high throughput of screening of chemicals, can be easily robotized, and are cost-effective compared with traditional toxicology.

DLRM is campaigning for the adoption of this programme by the EC and EU. DLRM believe it could halve the cancer mortality rate over the next five years, and would address the wide variety of side effects which have been tested by invalid methods.

I would be grateful if you ask the Commission to help fund this exciting programme. The website of DLRM is http://www.dlrm.org

Thank you in advance for your help and I look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Yours sincerely,


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