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Following an initial Opinion published in March 2011 based on two studies of the health effects of high-intensity sweeteners, ANSES made an internal request for assessment of the nutritional risks and benefits of these additives. The assessment is currently under way, and a preliminary progress report was published in June 2012 dealing specifically with the effects of consumption of these sweeteners by pregnant women. Due to an insufficient number of studies on pregnant women, this work did not allow conclusions to be made regarding potential risk to this group. As for the possible benefits, no nutritional advantage to consuming high-intensity sweeteners during pregnancy was demonstrated.

Today ANSES published its conclusions and recommendations regarding pollutants to be investigated in the context of road infrastructure health risk assessments. This work enters into the framework of revision of the French inter-ministerial circular dated 25 February 2005 regarding the incorporation in impact studies of the health effects of air pollution, introduced by the ministries in charge of health and ecology.

With a view to conserving water resources, the reuse of treated wastewater (RTWW) for crop irrigation or green space watering is considered an interesting alternative solution. In the wake of expertise work on the risks of exposure by the oral route, ANSES has just published an assessment of risks due to exposure by the respiratory and cutaneomucosal routes. These recommendations aim to limit exposure by these routes as much as possible.