Parliamentary Conference: "Environment and Health: Indoor Pollution and Multi-System Illnesses", Strasbourg, 5 December 2008

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Parliamentary Conference "Environment and Health: Indoor Pollution and Multi-System Illnesses" - Summary for the Council of Europe Internet website

"An increasing number of scientific studies are showing the links that exist between certain pollutants and given types of illnesses, such as allergies, respiratory disorders, reproductive problems or diseases of the central nervous system." It was in these terms that Jean Huss (Luxembourg, SOC), Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs, introduced the theme of the conference "Environment and Health: Indoor Pollution and Multi-System Illnesses" held at the Council of Europe's headquarters in Strasbourg on 5 December 2008.

The experts attending the conference concluded that an urgent response was needed to the omnipresent "cocktail" of chemical, physical and biological agents surrounding us (electromagnetic fields, substances used in the construction industry or toxic moulds), which engendered new syndromes. Pollution inside homes and buildings (whether old or new) was just as harmful to health as outdoor pollution. The participants regretted the fact that environmental diseases were marginalised within health care systems and often treated as psychiatric disorders. They called for environmental medicine to be recognised as a full-blown medical discipline.

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