Video summary of the ALDE Seminar: "Health : Questioning expertise deficient evaluation & conflicts of interest"

Event date: 04/03/10

MEPs: Corinne Lepage, Frédérique Ries, Fiona Hall
co-organization with: CRIIGEN, Foundation of Citizen Science and ENSSER

This seminar will look at new ways to guarantee a more transparent and pluralist scientific expertise, free from any conflicts of interest. The seminar will be organized around four examples of policy decisions (relating to drugs, GMOs, pesticides and chemicals) for which the scientific advise of experts were determining elements, but where the expert advise could lead to negative results for the environment and for public health.