The Management Board will be the first of the Authority’s four main operational elements, and its establishment will be closely followed by the next main component, which is the appointment of the Executive Director. He/she should be in post early in 2003 …
Prof. Vittorio Silano, chair of EFSA’s Scientific Committee[2], said: “It is clear there are significant animal health and welfare issues for surrogate mothers and clones that can be more frequent and severe than for conventionally bred animals. For cattle …
There is apparently some confusion concerning the risk assessment carried out on another GM maize, the hybrid GM maize MON 863 X MON 810, which was also addressed in the opinions of 2 April 2004 concerning MON 863. With respect to MON 863 X MON 810, the …
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) advises that there is no epidemiological information available to date suggesting that avian influenza (AI) - an infectious disease primarily affecting birds - can be transmitted to humans via food. Nevertheless, …
GM plants developed for non-food or non-feed purposes are plants which may be used for a wide range of applications such as the production of: industrial enzymes; raw materials for bio-fuels, paper and starch; medicinal products (such as vaccines and …
PFOS and PFOA, two man-made chemicals, are increasingly being found in the food chain owing to environmental pollution from industrial practices. These substances have been widely used in industrial and consumer applications, including stain- and water- …
ITX (Isopropylthioxanthone), a substance utilised in printing inks for certain packaging materials has been recently found in foods including infant formula. On the basis of the very limited data available today, the presence of ITX in food could be …
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Thank you Mr Florenz. Dear Honourable Members, Thank you for finding space in your busy timetable to allow me to address the Committee today on the future development of the European Food Safety Authority and to seek your views …
Get Consumer Updates by E-mail Download PDF (344 K) On this page: As parents and caregivers fill out a multitude of forms at the start of the school year, they may have questions about some requirements, including the vaccine schedule. According to …
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EFSA is neither for nor against GM technology and its role is solely to provide an independent assessment of the safety of each GMO based on the most rigorous risk assessment standards and methodology – all according to European Union and internationally …
Classical scrapie, which is the most common form of TSE among sheep and goats, is present in 0.1% of the general sheep population. In scrapie affected flocks, it is estimated that scrapie is present in between 3% and 41% of the animals. Animals infected …
The main conclusions of the opinion are as follows[2]: In humans, the major adverse health effects caused by Ambrosia plants are allergic symptoms – such as a runny nose, conjunctivitis and asthma – brought about by inhaling their pollen. Skin allergies …
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Thank you very much for your kind invitation to participate to this meeting today and in particular to the Finnish Authorities for hosting this meeting and enabling us to have today’s exchanges. In fact I believe that this is …
In December 2003, the European Council decided that Parma would be the seat of the European Food Safety Authority. In June 2004, EFSA began renting provisional premises in Viale Mentana in Parma in order to get operational as soon as possible until a …
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