Trans-disciplinary diagnosis for an in-depth reform of regulatory expertise in the field of environmental toxicology and security

Joël Spiroux de Vendômois, Jean-Paul Bourdineaud (), Arnaud Apoteker, Nicolas Defarge, Emilie Gaillard, Corinne Lepage, Jacques Testart and Christian Vélot
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Joël Spiroux de Vendômois: CRIIGEN - Comité de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur le génie Génétique
Jean-Paul Bourdineaud: MFP - Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Arnaud Apoteker: CRIIGEN - Comité de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur le génie Génétique
Nicolas Defarge: ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
Emilie Gaillard: IEP Rennes - Sciences Po Rennes - Institut d'études politiques de Rennes
Corinne Lepage: Ministère de l'environnement - Ministère de l'Environnement
Jacques Testart: CRIIGEN - Comité de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur le génie Génétique
Christian Vélot: Pôle Risques MRSH - Pôle Risques, qualité et environnement durable (MRSH) - MRSH - Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CRIIGEN - Comité de Recherche et d’Information Indépendantes sur le génie Génétique

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Abstract: Repeated health and environmental scandals, the loss of biodiversity and the recent burst of chronic diseases constantly remind us the inability of public authorities and risk assessment agencies to protect health and the environment. After reviewing the main shortcomings of our evaluation system of chemicals and new technologies, supported by some concrete examples, we develop a number of proposals to reform both the risk assessment agencies and the evaluation processes. We especially propose the establishment of an independent structure, a High Authority of Expertise, supervising, either at European level or at national level, all the evaluation agencies, and ensuring the transparency, the methodology and the deontology of the expertise. In addition to modifying the evaluation protocols, both in their nature and in their content, especially in order to adapt them to current pollutants such as endocrine disruptors, we propose a reform of the expertise processes based on transparency, contradiction, and greater democracy, including close collaboration between the institutional and scientific parties on the one hand and the whole civil society on the other. All the proposals we make are inspired by the desire to prevent, through appropriate mechanisms, the human, health, ecological, but also economic consequences of contemporary technological choices.

Keywords: Regulatory evaluation; Pesticide; Endocrine disrupter; Conflict of interest; High Authority of Expertise; Deontology; Deontology Toxicological Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Toxicological Research, 2021, 37 (4), pp.405-419. ⟨10.1007/s43188-020-00075-w⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s43188-020-00075-w

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