Mandate
SCENIHR shall provide opinions on questions concerning emerging or newly
identified risks and on broad, complex or multidisciplinary issues requiring a
comprehensive assessment of risks to consumer safety or public health and
related issues not covered by other Community risk assessment bodies.
Examples of potential areas of activity include potential risks associated with
interaction of risk factors, synergic effects, cumulative effects,
antimicrobial resistance, new technologies such as nanotechnologies, medical
devices including those incorporating substances of animal and/or human origin,
tissue engineering, blood products, fertility reduction, cancer of endocrine
organs, physical hazards such as noise and electromagnetic fields (from mobile
phones, transmitters and electronically controlled home environments), and
methodologies for assessing new risks.
