ANSES in action: 2021 Annual Report
ANSES is publishing the annual reports for 2021.
The general report offers an insider’s view of our missions and explains how we work to provide scientific guidance to protect our health and that of animals and plants.
Three specific reports describe our activities in the areas of plant protection products, biocidal products, and the prevention of conflicts of interest.
1. General Annual Report
Different perspectives on our news in 2021
Roger Genet, Director General, and Benoît Vallet, Chair of the Board of Administrators, give us their analysis of the Agency's work through five key themes:
- Commitment
- New expert appraisal missions
- Dialogue
- Research and partnerships
- Europe
At the heart of our missions
ANSES's role is to mobilise science to face current challenges relating to health and the protection of ecosystems. In its 2021 report, it provides an overview of its main missions backed up by key facts and figures:
- Assessing risks
- Conducting and financing research
- Supporting the prevention and management of health crises
- Taking action to improve the safety of substances and products placed on the market
Spotlight on our governance and the principles that guide our work
ANSES’s governance model embodies the principles guiding its work: independence, transparency, scientific excellence and openness to society. In our report, we review our ways of operating with the chairs of the Agency’s various bodies.
Our activities in 2021
In 2021, our activities provided useful knowledge for preventing risks of adverse effects and poisoning and the longer-term risks of chronic disease. Here we look back at our main achievements in six main areas.
- Taking account of all types of environmental exposure
- Supporting occupational risk prevention
- Health of plants and ecosystems
- Sounding the alert in the event of adverse effects of everyday products
- Ensuring food safety
- Improving animal health and welfare
Joint interviews
PARC: reforming chemical risk assessment in Europe
Toxicovigilance: poison control centres and anses working to combat everyday poisoning
ANSM et ANSES, together in a "one health" approach
2. Report on plant protection products, fertilisers and growing media
This report takes stock of our activities relating to the assessment and review of authorisation application dossiers for substances and products, with key figures and salient events from 2021 and insight into our organisation. It also describes our phytopharmacovigilance work.
> Read the 2021 report on plant protection products (PDF in French only)
3. Report on biocidal products
This report provides an overview of the activities we carried out in 2021 with regard to the assessment and review of marketing applications for biocidal products, with key facts and figures and a focus on adverse effects. It also reviews the applicable regulatory framework and ANSES's organisation concerning these activities.
> Read the 2021 report on biocidal products (PDF in French only)
4. Report of ANSES's Ethics Officer
Every year, ANSES’s Ethics Officer provides a summary of recent developments and key work undertaken at the Agency in the field of ethics. This year's report gives a concise and detailed description of the Agency's system for ethics, transparency, and the prevention of conflicts of interest.
> Read the 2021-2022 report of the Ethics Officer (PDF in French only)