Please sign Italian petition for recognition of Multiple Chemcial Sensitivity

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Our fellow canaries in Italy are asking for our support: Please take a

minute to sign this petition for the recognition of Multiple Chemical

Sensitivity in Italy.

 

 

There are just a couple more days left to sign in support of the Italian

petition to recognize Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. In the middle of March,

the Association for Chronic and/or Environmental Diseases by Intoxication

(AMICA) will meet with Senators to present the petition. Please sign; last

day to sign is March 10.

 

 

_Click here to sign_

(http://www.firmiamo.it/unaleggeperlasensibilitachimica) – it’s all in

Italian, so once you get to that page, click on “Firma,â€

then fill in the fields for First Name, Last Name, Email, Telephone (not

necessary), and postal code (CAP). _Direct link here to sign the petition._

(http://www.firmiamo.it/sign/petition/unaleggeperlasensibilitachimica)

 

 

 

THE PETITION TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH:

 

 

Petition promoted by the Association for Chronic and/or Environmental

Diseases by Intoxication (AMICA) _www.sensibilitachimica.it_

(http://www.sensibilitachimica.it)

 

 

To the Presidency of the Senate of the Italian Republic

 

To the President of the Chamber of Deputies

 

To the XII Committee of the Social Affairs at the Chamber of Deputies

 

To the XII Commission of the Senate Health and Hygiene

 

 

Since the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a chronic disabling

condition that involves multiorgan reactions to exposure to various chemicals

in

quantities normally tolerated by the general population and that the

diagnostic criteria were established by international consensus in 1999;

 

 

Seen that from 2 to 10% of the population is hyper-sensitive to

environmental chemicals and products in common use and an increasing proportion

is

affected by multiple substances – that is suffering multiple chemical

sensitivity, or MCS – with impaired capacity for work, social life and

autonomy

that varies from mild to very severe depending on the stages of the disease;

 

 

Since the MCS is recognized in the United States by federal law for the

Disabled American with Disabilities Act, federal agencies – such as the

Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the

Social Security Administration – and many local governments;

 

 

Since the MCS is recognized by Canada federal and Provincial government

agencies;

 

 

Since the MCS is classified by Germany since 1998 in the International

Code of Diseases by the T 78.4 in Chapter 19 (Injury, poisoning and other

consequences resulting from external causes) and Section T66-T78 (Other and

unspecified damage from external factors);

 

 

As the Ministry of Welfare and Labor of Germany, who had classified the

MCS in the of list of motor disability (as compared to those for the

inability of patients to move), has removed the description of illness as

psychosomatic (of psychological origin / Psychiatry), putting an end to

discrimination of this disease environment;

 

 

As the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Economy,

Trade and Industry (Japan), which for years have recognized the sick

building syndrome – similar to the MCS, said insert MCS October 2009 in the

list

of diseases covered by the insurance of the National Health Service;

 

 

Since in Italy there is no law that equalize the rights of the

environmental patients (not only MCS, but also of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, to

Elettrosensibilità of Fibromyalgia, Sick Building Syndrome, etc..) Than those

of

any other form of disability in terms of job protection, the right to

treatment, the right to a home “safeâ€, etc..;

 

 

The petitioners demand that are challenged with the highest priority of

the six bills initiative of the House of Representatives (No. 1621 August 5,

2008, No. 1654 of September 18, 2008, No. 1667 of 18 September 2008, N .

2287 March 12, 2009) and Senate (NS1019 of 17 September 2008, No. 1165 of 28

October 2008) for the recognition of MCS as a social disease, using the

international consensus in 1999 as a benchmark for the diagnosis, as in the

world.