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Europe, 30 Nov 2011 - Launch of Europe-wide campaign in support of warning labels on containers of alcoholic drinks. More than 15000 postcards are being distributed to national and EU health ministers and policymakers, as well as to the public, in more than 20 European countries. More information here.
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Netherlands, 19 Nov 2011 - The FAS Foundation of the Netherlands is chosen as one of the top 50 health-related charitable organizations by the influential national newspaper Trouw. More information here.

Liverpool, 19 Nov 2011 - Matthew's Story: FASD and How to Live With It. FAS Aware UK has issued a book on living with FASD, co-written by a young man with FASD. Download book here.

Call for Papers - The International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, a peer-reviewed, free-of-charge, open access journal and the official Journal of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (KBS), invites the submission of papers on biomedical, psychological, and sociological aspects related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), to be featured in this special issue to be published in December, 2012. More information here.

Treviso, 9 Sep 2011 - On the occasion of the second FASD Awareness Day in Italy, the Local Health Authority no. 9 of Treviso, Veneto Region, and Eurocare Italia presented the social communication video "I don’t drink, my baby doesn’t drink." The protagonists of the video are “I Papu”, a local comedy duo, and Lorenzo Bernardi, an internationally known volleyball player. To see the video, click here. More information here.

SAFFrance has met with the Minister of Health, Xavier Bertrand, to request measures to improve prevention, diagnosis and management of FASD in France. A request was made to enlarge the warning labels on bottles of alcoholic drinks to a minimum size of 1.5 x 1.3 cm.
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Rome, 9 Sep 2011 - In the first FAS Day event to be held in Rome, The Istituto Superiore di Sanità presented an Italian-language guide to diagnosis of FASD, available here. More on the story here.

Brussels, 7 Sep 2011 - Members of the European Parliament, the Commission, and representatives of numerous NGOs met with Mr John Dalli, the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, to discuss different ways to protect unborn babies from the negative effects of alcohol at the EU level. more>