Report on socio-technical barriers to the take up of NAMs

This report addresses factors which may inhibit the take-up on NAMs. Such factors are not merely technical but involve a range of social, economic and political factors that may create path dependency on existing methods and even resistance to transition. The socio-technical analysis explores how co-production of NAMs through multidimensional engagement around industrial imperatives, market behaviours, chemicals policy, civil society perspectives and technological innovation may help embed NAMs into the fabric of chemical risk assessment.