Effects of pesticides on health : New data

Abstract

This document presents a summary of the work of a group of experts brought together by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) to conduct a collective expert review on the effects of pesticides on human health, originally published in French.1 The review was performed at the request of five Directorates General of the French government: the Directorate General for Risk Prevention, the Directorate General for Health, the Directorate General for Labor, the Directorate General for Research and Innovation, and the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. This work, based on the academic literature available as of the first quarter of 2020, updates a collective expert report entitled Pesticides : Effets sur la santé published by Inserm in 2013. Over 5,300 documents were compiled through searches of various bibliographic databases including PubMed/Medline, Scopus, and Cairn and through complementary literature searches carried out by the experts. The work was coordinated by the Collective Expert Reports Unit of Inserm, which is part of its Public Health Thematic Institute.