Control of chemicals in Sweden: an example of misuse of the “precautionary principle”
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With a background in biochemistry and radiation biology, I started to get involved in the control of chemicals area by battling the use of alkyl-mercury compounds in Swedish agriculture during the years 1964–1965 (C.-G. Rosén, H. Ackefors, and R. Nilsson, 1966, Seed dressing compounds based on organic mercury—economic aspects and health hazards, Svensk Kemisk Tidskrift 78, 8–19), and subsequently I acted as the sole technical advisor to the plaintiffs for the thalidomide children in Sweden for 4 years, ending in a 100 million US dollar (present value) settlement with the producers in 1969 (H. Sjöström and R. Nilsson, 1991, Thalidomide and the Power of the Drug Companies, Penguin, London, Feltrinelli, Milano, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo Fisher Verlag, Berlin).