Avoid vested interests in safety testing new products

I agree with the director of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) that the historical mistake of mandating industry to test their own products should not be repeated (B. Url Nature 553, 381; 2018). The agency’s own record badly shook public trust in 2010, for example, when it overrode 800 or so academic studies on the chemical bisphenol A and its risk to health and the environment — relying instead on the results of four industry-sponsored protocol studies (see go.nature.com/2fi1vcs).

Nature 555, 443 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-03393-0

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