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EU Mercury Regulation | Implementation tracker

Publications

Towards PVC-free healthcare: Reducing environmental impact and exposure to harmful chemicals (05/2023)

Reducing plastic in healthcare | Best practice (06/2022)

 Report | The role of chemistry in sustainable medical textiles (12/2021)

Procurement criteria | European healthcare’s phase-out list for chemicals of concern (11/2021)
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Report | Measuring and reducing plastics in the healthcare sector (09/2021)

Disponible en español [ES]
Disponible en français [FR]
Beschikbaar in het nederlands [NL]

Factsheet | Sustainable food contact materials in the European healthcare sector (07/2021)

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Disponible en francais [FR]
Beschikbaar in het nederlands [NL]
Disponível em português [PT]

Report | Promoting safer disinfectants in the healthcare sector (11/2020)

Report (2nd edition) | Non-toxic healthcare: Alternatives to phthalates and bisphenol A in medical devices (12/2019)





Report | Strategic procurement in European healthcare (12/2019)

Disponible en español [ES]




Brief | Setting sustainability criteria in healthcare tenders (03/2019)






Factsheet | Guidelines for the procurement of safer medical devices (12/2018)






Factsheet | Moving towards a phase-out of dental amalgam in Europe (12/2018)

Factsheet | Reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare through sustainable procurement (09/2018)





Report | Current practices for the procurement of medical devices in Moroccan hospitals (07/2018) 

Disponible en français [FR]

Brochure | Dental Amalgam in the EU: Heading towards a phase out? (12/2017)






Factsheet | Medical Devices Regulation: An engine for substitution? (12/2017)






Workshop report | Can the Medical Devices Regulation be an engine for for substitution? (06/11/2017)





Report | Non-toxic healthcare: Alternatives to phthalates and bisphenol A in medical devices (31/12/2014)





Factsheet | Sustainable public procurement in European healthcare (12/2014)






Factsheet | Endocrine distruptors in the healthcare sector: Are there reasons for concern? (10/2013)








Factsheet | Mercury free 2020 (10/2013)






Factsheet | Q&A Phasing out mercury thermometers and blood pressure devices (01/2013)





Report | Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH global initiative to substitute mercury-based medical devices in healthcare (02/06/2010) [Co-published with the WHO]




Guide | Choosing safer products and chemicals: Implementing chemicals policy in healthcare (05/2008)

Older resources can be found in the resource archive.

Webinars and Podcasts

• Webinar | Reducing exposure to toxic plasticisers in PVC medical devices (15/05/2023)
• Webinar | Transformer les soins de santé grâce à l'alimentation durable [FR] (09/02/2023)
• Webinar | Reducing plastic and harmful chemical exposure to children [EN, FR, ES, NL] (07/12/2022)
  Webinar | How to reduce the impact of plastics in healthcare [EN, FR, ES, NL, EL] (28/11/2022)
• Webinar | Safer medical devices: Implementation of the EU MDR and EUDAMED database (27/09/2022)
• Webinar | The role of chemistry in sustainable medical textiles (17/03/2022)
• Webinar | How to measure and reduce plastic in healthcare (08/07/2021)
• Webinar | Tackling harmful chemicals in the healthcare sector (06/07/2021)
• Webinar | Driving the circular economy in healthcare through innovation procurement (30/06/2021)
• Webinar | Tackling harmful chemicals in medical devices (26/05/2021)
• Webinar | Towards plastic-free healthcare (02/07/2020)
• Webinar | Promoting safer disinfectants in the global healthcare sector (23/04/2020)
• Webinar | Promoting safer disinfectants in the healthcare sector (27/07/2019)
• Webinar | Public procurement in health: Setting sustainability criteria in tenders (28/03/2019)
• Webinar | Eliminating dental amalgam use in the EU - The way forward (24/10/2018)
• Webinar | Medical Devices Regulation – Heading in the right direction? (10/09/2018)
• Webinar | Circular economy in the healthcare sector: Experiences from FLOOW2 (11/05/2017)
• Webinar | The new medical devices regulation - An engine for EDC substitution? (09/11/2016)
• Webinar | Innovation procurement of food & catering services for the healthcare sector (29/09/2016)
• Webinar | PVCFree blood bag webinar (10/2015)
• Podcast | SAICM ICCM4 (09/2015)
• Webinar | EDCs in healthcare (24/09/2014)

Infographics

Infographic | Sustainable waste management - A guide for the healthcare sector (02/2022)

Infographic | Towards Mercury-Free Dentistry in Europe (11/2019)

Infographic | Mercury: A major environmental and public health concern (07/2016)

 
Infographic | Non-toxic healthcare: Reducing risks with safer alternatives (07/2016)

Other resources

• Communication campaign | Join the #PlasticFreeHealthcare movement (05/02/2023)
• Sustainable procurement criteria | Reusable textiles (24/01/2022)
• Sustainable procurement criteria | Examination gloves (24/01/2022)
• Procurement criteria | European healthcare’s phase-out list for chemicals of concern (29/11/2021)
• Video | Supporting patient health through proper disinfectant use (28/06/2021)
• Position paper | The polyvinyl chloride debate: Why PVC remains a problematic material (23/06/2021)
• Position paper | Sustainable healthcare waste management in the EU Circular Economy model (11/2020)
• EU Mercury Regulation | Implementation tracker
• Workshop | Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in healthcare: Reducing exposures for patients (03/12/2019)
• Workshop report | Environmental sustainability in the health sector: European practices and Hungarian potential (27/11/2014) [Budapest]
• Workshop presentations | Environmental sustainablity in the health sector: European practices and Hungarian potential (25/11/2014) [Budapest]
• Workshop report | Public procurement, energy, and mobility in the Italian health system and beyond (17/11/2014) [Bologna]
• Workshop presentations | Public procurement, energy, and mobility in the Italian health system and beyond (7/11/2014) [Bologna]