KATHMANDU, Jan 16: Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED), a national-level NGO, has raised concern about Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) found in Personal Care Products (PCP) used in Nepal. What is concerning is that those harmful chemicals are found in high quantities even in products made for children.

KATHMANDU, April 1: The Center for Public Health and Environment Development (CEPHED) has called for an Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs)-free Nepal. Stating that basic stationery items imported from outside the country were found to be highly contaminated, CEPHED has stressed the need for strongly regulating the import of children's stationery items like erasers and to enact standards of Phthalates and BPA in daily products used by children and effectively implement it.