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

  • de Vendomois, Joel Spiroux (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)) ;
  • Bourdineaud, Jean‑Paul (CNRS, UMR 5234, Laboratory of Fundamental Microbiology and Pathogenicity, European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, University of Bordeaux) ;
  • Apoteker, Arnaud (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)) ;
  • Defarge, Nicolas (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)) ;
  • Gaillard, Emilie (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)) ;
  • Lepage, Corinne (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)) ;
  • Testart, Jacques (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN)) ;
  • Velot, Christian (Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN))
  • Received : 2020.05.28
  • Accepted : 2020.11.04
  • Published : 2021.10.15
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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.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Foundations Lea Nature (Grant no 00848) and Un Monde par Tous (Grant no. 00081254). We are grateful to Mark and Nelly Slater, and Adelaide Leopoldes for proofreading the English.

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