2022

One Health approach. Non only relevant but necessary!

by cyb2025

ANTONIO CONTO
Chemsafe, Colleretto Giacosa (TO), Italy

The idea of ​​“One Health” is that health involves all levels of the ecosphere: human beings, animals and plants and, of course, climate and environment (see Figure 1). Disrupting one level, therefore, affects all other levels. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic is an example of this.

 

In other words (from FAO web site):
“The health of animals, people, plants and the environment is interconnected. One Health is an integrated approach that recognizes this fundamental relationship and ensures that specialists in multiple sectors work together to tackle health threats to animals, humans, plants and the environment. The global impact and response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a human health crisis caused by a virus passed from animals, highlights the need for coordinated action across sectors to protect health and prevent disruption to food systems”.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Antonio Conto is the founder of Chemsafe, an indipendent Regulatory Affairs company established in 2001. He has been working as Experimental Toxicologist in an Italian CRO for 13 years (1988-2001) before founding Chemsafe.
He manages a lot of REACH registration dossiers and related Risk Assessment at international level. In 2011 he was recognized as European Registered Toxicologist within EUROTOX as well as RENTIC (the Italian Registry of Toxicologist). Antonio pubblished around 100 papers in the field of regulatory science and attended lots of regulatory/scientific events as invited speaker. He is active members of various associations both in the chemical and medical areas (pharma and Medical Devices).

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