Rovira i Virgili University

Rovira i Virgili University

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C/ Escorxador s/n. 43003, Tarragona

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Montse Cartañà Guasch
Head of Communication
monse.cartana@urv.cat
977297011
Cristina Mallo Álvarez
UCC+i Technique
cristina.mallo@urv.cat
977558006

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SMC participants

Researcher at the Centre for Environmental Food and Toxicological Technology (TecnATox) at Rovira i Virgili University

Researcher at Tecnatox, a research centre of the Rovira i Virgili University in Reus

Researcher at the Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, researcher at the Centre for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (CEDAT)

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protesta

A study based on data from the Environmental Justice Atlas says that 81 women were murdered worldwide for their environmental activism: one of them in Spain, 7 in Colombia, 5 in Honduras and 4 in Peru, among other countries. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, says that violence against women defenders is concentrated in conflicts around mining, agribusiness and industrial projects in the Global South. The first author of the study is Dalena Tran, a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

bpa

A few weeks ago, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that exposure to bisphenol A through food is a risk to human health. The agency recommended a much lower tolerable daily intake dose than it had its own previous recommendations. In this explainer, we review key facts and documents to cover this issue--which will continue to make the headlines in months and years to come.  

microfibers

A study published in PLOS ONE reveals that more than 2,600 bacteria live on average on each floating microfibre in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to 195 bacterial species. This waste from plastic pollution, textiles and fishing activities, once colonised, smells like food and is consumed by marine animals. Among them, pathogenic Vibrio species have been found, a bacterium that can be a threat to bathing and seafood consumption.

adolescentes

A study in Spanish children, with follow-up from pregnancy to adolescence, has found an association between children's exposure to pesticides and fungicides and earlier breast development in girls and genital development in boys. The work has been carried out by the University of Granada (UGR), the Institute for Biosanitary Research (ibs.GRANADA) and CIBERESP (ISCIII).