In January last year, the New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) appealed against the 1992 EU-ban on the smokeless tobacco snus. Snus is powdered tobacco, often sold in pre-packed bags of the size of an index finger, which the users place on the upper lip. It is sometimes confused with snuffed tobacco, which is legal. Snus does […]
At the beginning of the EU Health Policy Platform annual meeting, Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, held an energetic speech against the practice of smoking tobacco. He pointed out that he believes the idea that harm-reduction through e-cigarettes, as it is currently practiced in the UK for instance, is nonsense. He doesn’t […]
Plaquer un étiquetage préventif sur tous les produits que nous achetons nous aide-t-il vraiment à mieux connaitre leurs risques potentiels ? Ne risquons-nous pas de tomber dans l’écueil de la surprotection de l’individu ?
VSK Newsroom quoted me on the introduction of plain packaging legislation in the Netherlands. Click down below to read the full article, or find it on their website.
The Dutch medicines website MedicalFacts quoted me on the introduction of plain packaging legislation in the Netherlands. Click down below to read the full article, or find it on their website.
Does slapping a warning label on every single item we buy in the shops really make us more aware of potential risks, or are we running into an overprotection of the individual?
Click down below to check out a segment from a debate on red meat taxes I did this week on TRT World.
Cet article a été rédigé avec Yaël Ossowski. Pour la deuxième fois en deux ans, nous avons été présents dans la tribune publique d’une conférence des Nations unies à Genève lorsqu’un haut fonctionnaire de l’ONU nous a dit que tous les membres des médias et du public devaient être exclus des débats. Cette occasion particulière […]
I was quoted by EPPM on the topic of the European Parliament’s vote on the new plastics strategy. Read more below, and on their website.
Click down below to see my latest video on EU Updates. The European Union wants to outlaw a vast array of plastic items.
