Shaping the Future of Sustainable Plant Protection, SPRINT's conference, took place on 25th June 2025 in Brussels.
This one-off conference gave delegates the chance to discover how they can drive real progress in:
- more realistic risk assessments of pesticides - for advanced health and environmental protection
- the transition towards sustainable plant protection
In the largest study of its kind, SPRINT spent 5 years producing extensive new evidence on pesticides’ health and environmental effects and their fate, and viable routes to more sustainable systems of plant protection.
As it drew to a close, the EU Horizon 2020-funded project shared its key findings and approaches at this event.
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Pesticides and health state of the art - Overview | Isabelle Baldi, University of Bordeaux
Why SPRINT matters?— EFSA considerations | Yann Devos, EFSA
SPRINT project overview | Violette Geissen, Wageningen University & Research
Pesticide regulatory context | Lindsey Hendricks-Franco, Ecologic Institute
Environmental impacts (pesticide exposure, risk, risk assessment and policy recommendations), PPPs’ distribution and health status | Abdallah Alaoui, University of Bern
Ecotoxicological assessment | Nelson Abrantes, CESAM, University of Aveiro & Paula da Silva Tourinho, Masaryk University
Human Biomonitoring results and interpretation | Paul Scheepers, Radboud University
Exposure assessment in SPRINT: An overview | Daniel Figueiredo, Utrecht University
Human Toxicology Studies | Daniele Mandrioli, Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center, Ramazzini Institute
Pesticide exposure and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis | Eoin Gunnigle, University College Cork
Recommendations for Pre- and Post-Market Policy - Part 1 | Lindsey Hendricks-Franco, Ecologic Institute
Recommendations for Pre- and Post-Market Policy - Part 2 | Lindsey Hendricks-Franco, Ecologic Institute
The SPRINT Toolbox | Jakub Hofman, RECETOX, Masaryk University
Pesticide cost-benefit analysis | Claudia Meier, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Farshad Soheilifard, Technical University of Denmark & Adrian Müller, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Hay production farming and ZavodSeneno–Slovenian Hay initiative| Peter Apat, Turistic farm Apat
Biological control in peppers - Spain | Francisco Torró - SURINVER Group Spain
Biological control in the EU | Domenico Deseiro, DG SANTE, European Commission
Transition pathways policy recommendations | Antonia Riedel, Ecologic Institute
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