The precautionary principle: in action for public health.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Principles of Food Safety and Toxicological Risk Assessment: Refining Hazards, Risk Management Communication, and Common Misconceptions.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2026
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2. Social Listening and its Issues: What can the Precautionary Principle Advice?Asian bioethics review · 2025
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3. Understanding the role of the state in dietary public health policymaking: a critical scoping review.Health promotion international · 2023
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4. The Commercial Determinants of Health and Evidence Synthesis (CODES): methodological guidance for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses.Systematic reviews · 2023
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5. The 'land of fires': epidemiological research and public health policy during the waste crisis in Campania, Italy.Heliyon · 2022
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6. "Anxious and traumatised": Users' experiences of maternity care in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.Midwifery · 2021
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7. Aerosol-generating otolaryngology procedures and the need for enhanced PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic: a literature review.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale · 2020
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8. USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health.Globalization and health · 2019
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9. Science, policy, and the transparency of values.Environmental health perspectives · 2014
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10. Solving problems in social-ecological systems: definition, practice and barriers of transdisciplinary research.Ambio · 2013
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11. Problems in applying the precautionary principle to public health.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007
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12. The precautionary principle in the context of multiple risks.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007
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13. The IARC Monographs: a resource for precaution and prevention.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007
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14. The reactionary principle: inaction for public health.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2007
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15. Development of a guide to applying precaution in local public health.International journal of occupational and environmental health
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Corrections and comments

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  The IARC Monographs: a resource for precaution and prevention.2007
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  The reactionary principle: inaction for public health.2007
• Commented on by
  The precautionary principle in the context of multiple risks.2007

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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