Asymmetric evaluations of scientific evidence indicating harm compared to evidence indicating an absence of harm in regulatory appraisals

Abstract This paper asks whether, when assessing the safety of regulated products, the standards of scrutiny and evaluation deployed by regulatory officials and scientific advisors differ for evidence indicating that a product might be harmful compared to evidence indicating an absence of harm. Four...

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Main Authors: Patrick van Zwanenberg, Erik Millstone, Alice Livingston Ortolani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-08-01
Series:Environmental Sciences Europe
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-025-01176-9
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