Program

Thursday 24 October

9.30 am
Opening of the venue

10h30 - Introduction
David Demortain (LISIS, INRAE): Pesticide assessment amid multiple and conflicting expertises

11h-13h — Pesticides assessment in practice: opening the ‘grey’ box of approval dossiers and procedures - Chair: Angela Creager (Princeton University)
  • Christina Ruden (ACES, Uni. Stockholm):  Transparency and objectivity in pesticides assessment: the issue of relevance assessment - via Zoom
  • David Demortain (LISIS, INRAE), Géraldine Enderli (LISIS, INRAE), Cristian Martinez (Cogniteva): Forging toxicological evidence in regulatory assessment: A textual analysis of EU assessment reports
  • Marion Desquilbet (TSE, INRAE), Robin Muniglia (TSE & LISIS, INRAE), Laurence Huc (LISIS, INRAE), Anouch Missirian (TSE, INRAE), Nathalie Jas (MOISA, INRAE): The reliability of ex-ante pesticides safety assessment: the case of SDHI pesticide carcinogenicity in the European Union

13h-14h15 — Lunch break

14h30-16h — Pesticides assessment in public arenas: contesting and reforming tests and guidelines - Chair: Gabrielle Bouleau (LISIS, INRAE)
  • Bastien Soutjis (LISIS, INRAE): Epistemic advocacy: NGO action towards regulatory risk assessment
  • Alessandra Arcuri (Uni. Rotterdam) & Marta Morvillo (Uni. Amsterdam): Resistance and change in EU pesticide law: Around and beyond molecular policy

Coffee break

16h30-18h — Pesticides assessment in the global industrial context - Chair: François Dedieu (LISIS, INRAE)
  • David Demortain (LISIS, INRAE): De-risking: The industry’s approach to the testing and regulatory assessment of active substances
  • Christian Berndt (Uni. Zurich): The global pesticide complex from below: analyzing the generics revolution and the changing logics of agrochemicals registration - via Zoom

Friday 25 October

9h-10h30 — Bridges and boundaries between toxicological research, regulatory science and hazard assessment - Chair: David Demortain (LISIS, INRAE)
  • Marlene Ågestrand (ACES, Uni. Stockholm): Science-policy interactions in the risk assessment of chemicals - via Zoom
  • Anna Beronius (Karolinska Institute): Developing & applying AOPs for chemicals hazard assessment - via Zoom
  • Maxime Zimmermann (LISIS, INRAE): “Modes of action”, “adverse outcome pathways” and “key characteristics”: organizing toxicological knowledge for pesticides risk assessment

Coffee break

11h-12h30 — Investigating and proving the carcinogenicity or genotoxicity of pesticides - Chair: Valentin Thomas (CERMES3, CNRS)
  • Alice Livingston-Ortolani (SPRU, Uni. Sussex): Ossification of regulatory science? A history of the investigation of the mechanisms of carcinogenicity of glyphosate
  • Laurence Huc (LISIS, INRAE): Epistemic selectivity: Models of carcinogenicity used in pesticides assessment

12h30-13h — Wrap-up

Date and venue

Thursday 24th October 10.30am-6pm
Friday 25th October 9am-1pm

Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Cécile Poisson lecture hall (George Pérec university library)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZbPynWWNwDGmLrJR6
Access to the venue by foot from the train station Noisy-Champs (RER A)

Registration
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Organizing committee
David Demortain, François Dedieu, Géraldine Enderli, Laurence Huc, Laura Maxim, Bastien Soutjis, Maxime Zimmerman

Further information: [email protected]
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS)