REACH: ACTIONS AGAINST EASING CHEMISTRY BILL, GERMANY 2005/2006 - NEWS ACCESS COMPILATION

News Access compilation containing:
1. NURSING MOTHERS AT BASF ANNUAL MEETING, MANNHEIM 04.05.2006
Nursing mothers protest against a contamination of breast milk with hazardous industrial chemicals in front of the annual meeting of the chemical corporation BASF with the slogan 'Keep my breast milk clean!' In front of the venue building activists have set up a 3 meters high feeding bottle with the slogan: 'No BASF-toxics in breast milk!'
As many as 300 industrial chemicals are already proven to be in human blood and breast milk. The EU parliament in Strasbourg is debating the first reading of the EU's regulation on chemicals, REACH (the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals).
2. YOUNG MEN AGAINST EASING CHEMISTRY BILL, BERLIN 13.12.2005
Young men wearing a fig leaf bearing the message 'everyday life chemicals are toxics for my sperms' are protesting in front of the Chancellor's Office in Berlin against their bodies being contaminated with industrial chemicals.
3. EXPECTANT MOTHERS AGAINST EASING CHEMISTRY BILL, BERLIN 17.11.2005
Pregnant women bearing the message 'Ms Merkel, keep your chemicals out of my womb' are protesting in front of the CDU conservative party's headquarters in Berlin against their bodies being contaminated with industrial chemicals.

Speech: Jürgen Hambrecht, executive chairmen of BASF
Statement: Ulrike Kallee, Greenpeace Germany chemistry expert

4 May, 2006

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