Sundh, Ingvar and Eilenberg, Jorgen
(2021).
Why has the authorization of microbial biological control agents been slower in the EU than in comparable jurisdictions?
Pest Management Science. 77
, 2170-2178
[Research article]
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to identify reasons why the authorization of microbial pest control agents is lengthier under regulatory frameworks of the European Union (EU) than in comparable jurisdictions. A main conclusion is that although the EU and apos;s regulatory processes have strong scientific foundations, the most appropriate scientific concepts, knowledge and expertise have not been applied in the safety assessment of microorganisms and biological control. Tradition and conceptual legacies from assessments of conventional chemical pesticides have likely contributed to this by steering the evaluations of microorganisms in less appropriate directions. According to our investigation, the current framework for microbial plant protection products complies poorly with the principles that legislation should have legal predictability, proportionality, and that it should be non-discriminative, for instance in comparison to corresponding regulations in comparable jurisdictions. We also found that existing possibilities to take non-safety and ethical considerations into account can probably be used more. To rationalize the EU and apos;s authorization of microbial control products, both the basic legislation and the evaluations of agents and products need stronger rooting in fundamental microbiological science. (c) 2020 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
Authors/Creators: | Sundh, Ingvar and Eilenberg, Jorgen | ||||||
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Title: | Why has the authorization of microbial biological control agents been slower in the EU than in comparable jurisdictions? | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Pest Management Science | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2021 | ||||||
Volume: | 77 | ||||||
Page range: | 2170-2178 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||
Publisher: | JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD | ||||||
ISSN: | 1526-498X | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Agricultural Science (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Microbiology (Microbiology in the medical area to be 30109) | ||||||
Keywords: | microbial control agents, regulatory framework, legislation, biological control, biocontrol, plant protection products, integrated pest management, IPM, European Union | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-109886 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-109886 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 23395 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Department of Molecular Sciences | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 03 May 2021 18:44 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 04 May 2021 05:01 |
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