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Algorithm-generated diets tailored to our individual needs could bring health benefits, but at the cost of having to share our most personal data, such as our DNA. The promises are many, but so are the open questions about interactions between genes, nutrients, environment and health, and the role of socioeconomic factors underlying food choices. Precision nutrition advice, services and products will need to be governed by a range of laws and policies, as they are at the intersection between food ...

Auf seiner ersten Oktober-Plenartagung wird das Europäische Parlament voraussichtlich seinen Standpunkt zu einem Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission zur Überarbeitung eines zentralen Elements der EU-Rechtsvorschriften über Chemikalien festlegen, mit dem eine ordnungsgemäße Einstufung, Kennzeichnung und Verpackung gefährlicher Stoffe und Gemische zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit und der Umwelt verbindlich eingeführt wird.

Die Behandlung von kommunalem Abwasser zur Beseitigung schädlicher Bestandteile ist für den Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit sowie der Flüsse, Seen und Meere maßgeblich. Auf der ersten Oktober-Plenartagung nimmt das Europäische Parlament voraussichtlich seinen Standpunkt zu einem Vorschlag der Kommission an, mit dem die vor mehr als 30 Jahren angenommenen Vorschriften verschärft und mit den Klimaneutralitäts-, Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Null-Schadstoff-Zielen der EU in Einklang gebracht werden sollen ...

Cannabis is by far the most commonly used illicit drug (referred to as drug in this briefing) in the European Union (EU), where its distribution, cultivation, possession and use (consumption) are largely prohibited. The prohibition of drug-related activities other than those performed for medical or scientific purposes is the defining feature of the international drug control system. Set up by the United Nations (UN), this system is composed of three complementary conventions, to which all EU Member ...

A revision of the Detergents Regulation is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2023. The revision of the regulation is aimed at ensuring consistency with other EU chemicals legislation, adapting the legislation to technical progress as well as reducing administrative burdens. In the context of the EU chemicals strategy for sustainability, provisions may be introduced or reinforced to take account of the combination effects of chemicals and to extend the generic approach to risk management ...

The European Union has been developing a policy on chemicals for more than 50 years. It employs legal regulation as the main policy instrument and aims to protect human health and the environment against the hazardous properties of chemicals, ensuring their free movement within the internal market, while also promoting competitiveness and innovation in the relevant industrial sector. Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (the CLP Regulation ...

This study analyses how governments, public health experts and other professionals communicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of these communication strategies. It investigates COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation practices, and how these practices were addressed in the European Union by the Member States and the European Commission. It draws up recommendations to improve responses in the future, including by analysing the role of the Code of Practice on disinformation ad the ...

On 30 November 2022, 12 years after the adoption of the first strategy on the EU's role in global health in 2010, the European Commission unveiled the EU global health strategy with the overarching goal of improving global health security and ensuring better health for all. The document takes stock of lessons learnt from the pandemic and guides EU action in an evolving landscape of threats and opportunities, including towards reasserting responsibility for attainment of the United Nations Sustainable ...

Auf seiner Januar-I-Plenartagung wird das Parlament über den von seinem Ausschuss für Umweltfragen, öffentliche Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit (ENVI) angenommenen Bericht über einen Vorschlag der Kommission abstimmen, wie die EU-Vorschriften für die Verbringung von Abfällen überarbeitet werden sollen. Der Bericht in der angenommenen Fassung würde dann den Standpunkt des Parlaments für die Trilogverhandlungen mit dem Rat bilden.

These proceedings summarise the presentations and discussions before the European Parliament’s Health Working Group as part of the workshop on ‘New incentives to improve the accessibility and availability of antimicrobial medicinal products’, held on 26 October 2022. The five presentations touched, inter alia, upon the burden of AMR, the current research on development of antimicrobials, and incentive models. These workshop proceedings were provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific ...