The case will be offered to parents of new or future children born in Paris, from mid-2025. This measure is part of the municipality's second “environmental health plan”.
Solid soap, a wooden rattle, baking soda for laundry… The municipality of Paris will offer new parents “a case with everyday objects and products without pollutants”, from mid-2025.
A project which aims to help families “protect their child’s health on a daily basis”. A stainless steel glass, reusable wipes and Marseille soap complete the kit given to parents of new or future children born in the capital.
“We echo the pink box” that some women receive in the maternity ward, explains Anne-Claire Boux, environmentalist deputy to the mayor of Paris in charge of health. The municipality also says it was inspired by Strasbourg town hall, which proposes “green ordinances”. This system intended for pregnant women aims to limit exposure to endocrine disruptors through workshops and the “free provision of a basket of vegetables from organic and short-circuit farming, every week”.
45 measures for the health of Parisians
This measure is part of the municipality's new “environmental health plan”, voted on by the Paris Council this Tuesday, November 19. The 45 measures presented “aim to reduce social and health inequalities”, according to the town hall.
In addition to the kit, the municipality wishes to “offer all pregnant women an awareness workshop on the risks linked to endocrine disruptors in their daily lives”.
For these two projects, and with 21,000 births annually in the capital, the estimated budget is one million euros per year.
With this second plan, the Paris town hall wishes to “protect the health of all” as well as “the environment”. “We want to work on the impact of pollution on our health”, indicates Anne-Claire Boux, who assures that “10% of cancers” are “linked to environmental factors”.
Nicolas Dumas with Alicia Foricher
