2025/11/27 by Christopher John Topping, Noa Simon‐Delso, James Williams +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Insect and Pesticide Research #Genetically Modified Organisms Research #Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
paper · pdf · doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e180508
openalex publication_date 2025/11/27 · openalex created_date 2025/11/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
EU chemical regulation remains slow, costly, and prone to “ecological surprises” such as unforeseen negative impacts, delayed neonicotinoid bans and ongoing pollinatordecline. Current approaches create silos, overlook cumulative impacts, and trap decisions in binary “safe/unsafe” categories. A systems-first, tools-second approach can deliver faster, cheaper, and more effective decisions by prioritising simulation and systems understanding before developing regulatory tools forEnvironmental Risk Assessment (ERA). Horizon Europe’s PollinERA project demonstrates how this can work in practice: building a prototype One Systemworkflow with interoperable data and models for pollinator risk assessment; an approach that can be expanded to other environmental domains.