The Government launches the 4th National Health and Environment Plan “One environment, one health”

The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the close links between human health, animal health and environmental health. Human behavior, through its impact on biodiversity or climate change, weighs heavily on the origin of emerging infectious diseases, 60% of which are of animal origin.

This fourth plan is the result of consultations carried out since January 2019 with all the stakeholders within the framework of the Groupe Santé Environnement (GSE), chaired by Elisabeth Toutut Picard. It pursues four ambitious goals for the next five years:

1. Allow everyone, young people, citizens, elected officials, professionals, to be better informed and take action to protect their health and that of its environment thanks to simple and easily accessible tools;
2. Reduce environmental exposures and their impact on health and that of ecosystems;
3. Involve communities more so that environmental health is available in the regions (municipalities, public inter-municipal cooperation establishments, departments, regions), as close as possible to everyone’s needs;
4. Through research, learn more about exhibitions throughout life and understand the effects of environmental pollution on health.

To meet the challenges of the PNSE 4, the State plans in particular through this plan to:

• Make available to all a public digital service to know the quality of its immediate environment (outdoor air quality, risk of allergic to pollen, etc.) and the right actions to adopt;
• Allow everyone toidentify the presence of hazardous chemicals in everyday products via a smartphone application to increase transparency and allow consumers to make informed choices;
• Improve the legibility of the labeling of household products to reduce the risks associated with their use, for example with type labeling toxiscore. Indeed, the French buy more than 1 billion household products per year, and the pandemic has tended to accelerate this trend since the French clean and disinfect more regularly. These products are now subject to complex labeling which does not provide an idea of ​​the risk associated with the use of a product at a glance;
• Better inform owners, in partnership with the veterinary profession, about the risks associated with the use of biocidal products for pets (insecticides, disinfectants, repellents);
• Avoid the “foam phenomena” sometimes observed on French beaches linked to water pollution by water molecules. petrochemical detergents by favoring detergents (dishwashing liquid, washing powder, etc.) with profiles more favorable for the environment and health;
• Dedicate an envelope of 90 million euros to finance scientific research programs on:
• – environmental factors which, throughout life, have an impact on health;
• – emerging pathogens, in particular those which spread from animals to humans.
• Ban the most dangerous blue lights in children’s toys in application of the recommendations of the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES);
• Develop a common space for sharing environmental data in open data, to feed research and independent expertise and allow links with health data;
• Strengthen animal health surveillance in the context of the health crisis to prevent the development of infectious diseases of animal origin.

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