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15/11/12

BCUK calls for tougher regulation after research finds that some workers face double the risk breast cancer due to working in a "toxic soup" of chemicals.
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31/10/12

See the Independent article on our new campaign to ban BPA in food and drinks packaging.
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31/10/12

BCUK's blog on breast cancer and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
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05/10/12

Breast Cancer UK joins forces with other health and environment NGOs in a bid to ensure European review into how hormone disrupting chemicals are regulated is robust.
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05/10/12

Breast Cancer UK joins forces with other health and environment NGOs in a bid to ensure European review into how hormone disrupting chemicals are regulated is robust..
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01/10/12

Breast cancer rates up by 90 percent: Breast Cancer UK calls on Government to cut cancer causing chemicals.
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01/10/12

BCUK Press Release. Breast cancer rates up by 90 percent..
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01/05/12

Act: Global Common Statement.
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14/07/11

Cancer now affects 2 in 5 people in UK.
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04/02/11

One in eight women will develop breast cancer.
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26/11/10

EU Commission bans BPA from babies bottles.
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News and articles

09/04/13

"BPA poses risk to mammary gland of unborn child" says French Health Authority (ANSES). New report backs up BCUK's concerns that early exposure to BPA can make the breast more susceptible to cancer..
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13/03/13

European Parliament votes for revised laws to reduce people's exposures to hormone disrupting chemicals, following WHO/UN report.
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19/02/13

UN and WHO warn hormone-disrupting chemicals a 'global threat'.
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12/02/13

U.S. Government breast cancer report calls for focus on prevention and environmental risk factors.
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26/01/13

Research on rats suggests exposure to chemicals in the womb may cause changes that are passed through generations..
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24/01/13

MEPs push for tougher laws on hormone disrupting chemicals, like BPA..
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13/12/12

France bans BPA in food and drinks packaging - Breast Cancer UK calls on the UK Government to do the same..
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07/11/12

The cost of treating breast cancer has hit 1.5 billion. We want the Government to take more action to prevent this disease..
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15/10/12

NHS facing breast cancer 'time bomb'. Breast Cancer UK thinks most ethical solution is to prevent it in the first place by cutting cancer causing chemicals..
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05/10/12

France takes steps to ban the use of BPA in food packaging by 2015. Breast Cancer UK calls on the UK Government to do the same..
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05/10/12

Fears that review could be undermined as European Commission hands scientific assessment over to the European Food Safety Authority, which has been criticised for lack of scientific expertise and chemical industry bias..
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05/10/12

01/10/12

Breast cancer rates up by 90 percent - Breast Cancer UK calls on Government to cut cancer causing chemicals.
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24/09/12

New breast cancer clues found in gene analysis www.bloomberg.com.
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21/09/12

World governments recognise potential adverse effects of hormone disrupting chemicals like BPA. UN asked to draw up work plan to reduce exposures. See http://www.chemicalwatch.com.
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14/09/12

UN issues warning on chemicals and calls for tougher regulation..
The World Health Organization estimates that more than twenty-five percent of all cases of disease are linked to environmental causes.
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31/08/12

Johnson & Johnson to phase out cancer causing chemicals - Government remains out of touch with voters on chemical regulation www.technorati.com.
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13/07/12

Breast cancer surgery women 'risk more operations' www.bbc.co.uk.
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06/07/12

BPA exposure linked to DNA damage in breast cells chemicalwatch.com.
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12/06/12

Breast cancer: Leeds study highlights need to focus on recurrence www.bbc.co.uk.
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10/06/12

Poisoned by plastic www.dailymail.co.uk.
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01/06/12

Cancer Rates Expected To Increase 75% By 2030 www.medicalnewstoday.com.
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29/05/12

Expert believes last week's report - which questioned HRTs link to breast cancer - is flawed.
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15/05/12

Harmful household chemicals must be banned - Health before commerce www.guardian.co.uk.
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10/05/12

Many scientists think that the growth in many human diseases and disorders, including breast cancer, is connected to rising levels of exposure to some chemicals in widespread use. In a new report, the European Environment Agency says we should take a precautionary approach to many of these chemicals.
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10/05/12

Household chemicals' 'cocktail effect' raises cancer concerns for watchdog www.guardian.co.uk.
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07/05/12

Cancer fears have grown over Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical widely used in plastic packaging and food-can linings, after new research showed that it affected the development of monkey's mammary glands.
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14/07/11

Health charity says four in 10 people will get cancer www.bbc.co.uk.
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14/07/11

Cancer 'will affect 40% of people' www.mirror.co.uk.
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26/11/10

Baby bottles with BPA banned in Europe www.redorbit.com.
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26/11/10

Europe bans Bisphenol A from Baby Bottles from mid-2011 Chemical Week.
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01/11/10

Major producers to ditch BPA from packaging The Independent.
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