The Alliance joined with 34 other public interest organisations lead by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL),  to write to the EU Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee to urge them to vote in favour of the draft ENVI Committee opinion  which calls for the rejection of the EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) at their meeting on the 12/1/17. The organisations believe that CETA will prioritise trade and monetary interests over public health and environment, and so the decision to conclude CETA by February 2017 should be rejected.

The European Commission is already on course to lower EU standards to protect against harmful and toxic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs).  EDCs are harmful chemicals that have been linked to a wide range of diseases, including cancer, birth defects and other developmental disorders which conservative estimates estimate to cost Europeans more than € 160 billion each year in additional health expenses. If CETA is allowed to enter into force it will considerable weaken any regulations on EDCs. Trade must not be allowed to take priority over our health, the health of our environment and wildlife.

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Helen Lynn has worked on issues linking women, gender, health and the environment since 1995, initially at the Women’s Environmental Network where she was health co-ordinator for 12 years, then as a freelance consultant. She has worked internationally and at EU level with Women in Europe for a Common Future and is on their International Advisory Board. Her campaign work began with Putting Breast Cancer on the Map, which encouraged women to map local sources of pollution alongside incidence of breast cancer and she was one of the founders of the No More Breast Cancer Campaign. She is on the Soil Associations Health Products Standards Committee which develops and keeps under review standards for organic health and beauty care products. While at WEN she and the health team initiated the Getting Lippy campaign on harmful ingredients in cosmetics, the campaign covered all aspects of the issue including information on toxic ingredients, making your own cosmetics, misleading labelling and advertising of the products and which alternatives are available. Other campaigns Helen worked on included the Ban Lindane (a toxic pesticide used on crops) Campaign, Healthy Flooring, Enviromenstrual, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. She currently facilitates the Alliance for Cancer Prevention which works with occupational and environmental health specialists and activists to challenge the existing emphasis on control and treatment of cancer as the only way forward and to get equal recognition for primary prevention, particularly in relation to environmental and occupational risk factors. In 2014 along with fellow breast cancer activists she began the From Pink to Prevention campaign which aims to move the agenda towards Stopping Breast Cancer before it Starts.