The historic disaster in regulatory toxicology: the adoption of the ADI concept

Henk Tennekes refers to last century’s fifties, wherein the Germans Hermann Druckrey (1904-1994) and his friend, Chemistry Nobel laureate (1939) Adolf Butenand (1903-1995), advocated in the international community for a risk-prevention policy of dose-effect research for all pesticides. They wanted to prevent irreversible effects of pesticides. On the other hand there was the French René Truhaut, who advocated for the acceptable daily intake as the risk-management strategy for pesticide allowance for practical use. The controversy was ‘won’ by Truhaut, thanks to massive support from industry. And now indeed we see a wide range of irreversible pollution with pesticides and their remnants, so as for example the neonics that kill all insects (including all the highly valuable bees etc.) and thus also all birds feeding on that wide range of insect species.

Source:
Jan Diek van Mansvelt (2017) HISTORIC AND ACTUAL AWARENESS OF SOIL FERTILITY IN AGRICULTURE: RUSSIA – WESTERN EUROPE – USA: DRAFT OF A SURVEY. УСПЕХИ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ НАУКИ, 2017 - modernsciencejournal.org