The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a report outlining its current activities and future priorities in the area of data collection. The report underlines that accurate, comprehensive and comparable data on the occurrence of different …
In line with its Strategic Plan for 2009-2013, EFSA aims to further develop cooperation with national food safety agencies and other national scientific organisations. Longer term planning was seen as an important way to enable Member States to participate …
"This was another landmark meeting,” said EFSA Management Board chairman, Stuart Slorach. “The Board is delighted that EFSA now has a permanent home in Parma. We can now move forward with the planning of our move and full establishment of the …
EFSA was asked by the European Commission to deliver an opinion on the risks to consumers from nitrate in vegetables and to consider the balance between health risks and benefits in order to provide an up-to-date scientific basis to support risk managers …
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle Dear President of (ASAE) the Portuguese Economy and Food Safety Standard Agency, Dr Nunes Dear Portuguese Member of EFSA's Advisory Forum, dear Manuel Barreto Dear distinguished public I feel very honoured to be able to …
Experimental data confirmed that the “marker” for BSE (the disease-associated prion protein) in the central nervous system of cattle becomes detectable during the last quarter of the BSE incubation period in the animal, before the disease becomes …
EFSA explained how scientific opinions are finalised, from the initial mandate given to the European food safety watchdog to the final publication of the opinion. The BEUC delegation received an update on the work of the Panel dealing with dietetic …
