The Louisville Charter: The NGO Blueprint for New Chemicals Policy

See Tickner Joel and Geiser Ken , 2003, New Directions in European Chemicals Policy: Drivers, Scope and Status, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

For general information on toxics in packaging legislation see: Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse webpage http://www.toxicsinpackaging.org. For details on state legislation see: http://www.toxicsinpackaging.org/comparative%2Banalysis.htm (accessed 11/27/06).

See http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/ (accessed 11/27/06).

See http://www.louisvillecharter.org/endorsements.shtml for a list of the organizations who have signed onto the Louisville Charter.

The five demands are: right to know, comprehensive assessments of chemical safety, phase out of persistent or bioaccumulative chemicals, substitute less safe chemicals with safer alternatives, and stop all releases to the environment of hazardous substances by 2020. See

http://www.eeb.org/activities/chemicals/Copenhagen-Chemicals-Charter2310.pdf (accessed 11/27/06).