David Zaruk is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College and Facultés Universitaires St-Louis and has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2001, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle. He was part of the team that set up GreenFacts to encourage a wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental health matters. His website is http://risk-monger.blogactiv.eu/