The EU chemicals testing program REACH is a well-intentioned but scientifically flawed attempt to protect human health and the environment, both of which continue to be at risk from the effects of toxic chemicals. The EU chemicals testing program REACH (registration, evaluation, authorisation and…
Press releases
New study reveals adverse effects when common pesticides mixed
An Antidote Europe-funded study demonstrates the harmful effects of mixtures of the pesticides pyrimethanil, cyprodinil and fludioxonil. A scientific study conducted by Aston University in Britain and funded by NGOs Future Generations and Antidote Europe has been published in the peer-reviewed…
Why the Nuremberg Code may harm your health
Science has moved forward 65 years since the end of World War II but the laws have not yet caught up with the science. A doctor, lawyer and university professor of neuroscience have just released startling new evidence to show…
Claude Reiss on Radio France Inter
Claude Reiss, Antidote Europe’s president, will be interviewed tomorrow, July 10th, at 14:00 on Radio France Inter about chemicals in our environment. The interview will be held in French.
Faulty breast implants
In a letter addressed to the chief executive of the MHRA, the consumer watchdog Antidote Europe today accused the MHRA of failing in its mission to protect the public. The PIP breast implant health scare is a shocking example of regulatory failure on the part…
Scientists question value of monkey experiments
An article published in the peer-reviewed Medicolegal and Bioethics presents a rare challenge not just on the ethics but also on the science of using non-human primates in research. Public surveys have consistently shown the general public to be uneasy about the…
Adverse drug reactions kill 197,000 Europeans annually
In a letter addressed to EU Commissioner John Dalli, Antidote Europe points to the growing number of scientists who consider animal tests to be about as predictive as, or less than, tossing a coin. Antidote Europe has written to EU…
Patients are now the real guinea pigs
Antidote Europe welcomes recent French media reports warning the public about dangerous medicines. Antidote Europe welcomes recent media reports warning the public about dangerous medicines (the latest are the drugs mediator and buflomedil). The French-based NGOfully endorses this latest expose that reveals the enormous…
BBC presenter Uhlenbroek joins scientists on campaign
The campaign’s report presents an immediate science strategy to end poisoning tests on non-human primates.
Making a molehill out of the Bisphenol A mountain
Antidote Europe has criticised the French government for taking very timid measures to ban the synthetic chemical bisphenol A (BPA). It makes no sense to protect nursing infants by banning the substance in baby bottles when their mothers are exposed to it…
