Exclusive: The same studies were submitted to US regulators and some are relevant to safety levels, the researchers say
Pesticide companies failed to disclose a series of studies assessing brain toxicity to European regulators, according to new research, despite the same studies having been submitted to US regulators.
The new research is the first systematic assessment of non-disclosure and focused only on developmental neurotoxicity studies. The researchers found 35 DNT studies submitted to the US Environmental Protection Agency as part of the pesticide approval process but found that nine of these had not been included in dossiers sent to the EU authorities for the same pesticides.
Prof Christina Rudén, study co-author and also at Stockholm University, said: “Most important to me is the principle to have to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It is outrageous, what they’re doing.”new EU pesticide regulation proposals EU regulations state that pesticide dossiers should “include a full and unbiased report of the studies conducted [unless] it is not necessary owing to the nature of the product or its proposed uses, or it is not scientifically necessary. In such a case a justification shall be provided.”
The chemical companies said they had complied with the EU regulations, in some cases arguing they were not legally obliged to submit the studies. They also disagreed with the researchers’ conclusions that some of the studies had led to tighter regulation when the EU authorities had become aware of the studies’ existence, or that they could do so in the future.
Standard DNT tests expose pregnant female rats to a pesticide and assess their offspring for neuropathological and behavioural changes. The tests have been shown to identify chemicals known to cause DNT damage in humans, though in some cases humans are substantiallyThree of the undisclosed DNT studies have already led to regulatory changes, after subsequent evaluation by EU regulatory authorities, according to Mie and Rudén.
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