Spiroux de Vendômois Joël, Bourdineaud Jean-Paul, Apoteker Arnaud, Defarge Nicolas, Gaillard Emilie, Lepage Corinne, Testart Jacques, Vélot Christian
Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic Engineering (CRIIGEN), 42 rue de Lisbonne, 75008 Paris, France.
CNRS, UMR 5234, Laboratory of Fundamental Microbiology and Pathogenicity, European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Toxicol Res. 2021 Jan 25;37(4):405-419. doi: 10.1007/s43188-020-00075-w. eCollection 2021 Oct.
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.
反复出现的健康与环境丑闻、生物多样性的丧失以及近期慢性病的激增不断提醒我们，公共当局和风险评估机构无力保护健康与环境。在回顾了我们的化学品和新技术评估体系的主要缺陷，并辅以一些具体实例后，我们提出了一系列改革建议，以改革风险评估机构和评估流程。我们特别提议设立一个独立机构，即高级专业权威机构，在欧洲层面或国家层面监督所有评估机构，并确保专业知识的透明度、方法和职业道德。除了在性质和内容上修改评估协议，特别是为了使其适应内分泌干扰物等当前污染物外，我们还提议基于透明度、抗辩和更大的民主对专业知识流程进行改革，包括机构与科学界一方面与整个民间社会另一方面之间的密切合作。我们提出的所有建议都源于这样一种愿望，即通过适当机制预防当代技术选择所带来的人类、健康、生态以及经济后果。
