Environmental Health Sciences Decision Making Risk Management, Evidence, and Ethics: Workshop Summary (2009) / Chapter Skim
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6 Closing Comments
6 Closing Comments
Pages 53-56
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. Central to the discussion was the inherent tension between science and public health in determining the burden of proof for a toxic chemical.
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In recent years, tremendous advances have been made in molecular biology to elucidate cellular pathways and mechanisms that contribute to the understanding of how chemicals might contribute to human disease, but these advances are not a panacea for regulatory policy. Many cellular and molecular pathways have been highly conserved throughout evolution, and thus fundamental biological knowledge learned from simple organisms may be quite relevant to human biology.
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Thus there is a need for the field to address the perception of bias in research and continued discussions as to how biases can be acknowledged and conflicts of interest can be managed. In conclusion, environmental health sciences is sometimes caught between potential overuse of the precautionary principle, which can engender unwarranted fear on the part of the public, and lack of timely decisions of potential public health importance when data are insufficient to make science-based decisions.
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