ENVIRONMENTAL group EcoWaste Coalition is calling on parties to the Minamata Convention to eliminate all-mercury-added cosmetics from physical and online markets.
With Undas just around the corner, we ask COP5 negotiators to “stop the mercury horror,” EcoWaste Coalition National Coordinator Aileen Lucero was quoted in a statement as saying. “These cosmetics are dangerous and should be the subject of international cooperation to ensure that they are not traded, advertised, or used,” said Lee Bell, mercury policy advisor to the International Pollutants Elimination Network .
“This creates a two-fold exposure situation through dermal absorption and vapor inhalation,” Valenzuela said. “People living together in places with inadequate ventilation are at greater risk when they breathe mercury-contaminated air and touch mercury-contaminated clothes, blankets, pillows, and towels.”