Disease-causing chemicals in everyday products cost EU billions

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Disease-causing chemicals in everyday products from sunscreen to store receipts cost EU countries more than 30 billion euros in health costs, a study said on Wednesday.

 

According to a report by the Health and Environment Alliance, a leading activist group on EU health matters, hormone-disrupting chemicals are causing spiralling rates of disease and putting a dangerous strain on healthcare policies across the 28-country bloc.

 

“Exposure to food and everyday electronic, cosmetic and plastic products containing hormone disrupting chemicals may be costing up to 31 billion euros ($42 billion) per year in the European Union,” the alliance said in a statement.

 

It based the calculation on the cost of treating a list of diseases and conditions it said scientists had found to be related to hormone disorders.

 

 

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