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Published on: 12 June 2013 Are you a scientist with experience of chemical risk assessment? Are you interested in making a difference to European food safety? Then apply to join two of EFSA's Scienti[...]
The FLABEL project ('Food Labelling to Advance to Better Education for Life') was the first EU-funded research programme to examine nutrition labelling when it was launched three years ago. Now havin[...]
European Commission Press release Brussels, 10 June 2013 An annual report published today on Europe's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) revealed that in 2012 almost 50% of notifications re[...]
European Commission MEMO Brussels, 10 June 2013 What is RASFF? Launched in 1979, the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) is primarily a tool to exchange information between national competen[...]
Published on: 29 May 2013 EFSA is working closely with ECDC to help identify the origin of the recent outbreak of Hepatitis A virus infection in humans in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. All 15 [...]
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be found in Salmonella and Campylobacter, the latest joint report from the European Food Safety Authority and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Con[...]
Brussels, 7 May - The first up and running European Citizens Initiative (ECI) - Water is a Human Right - has collected over 1.5 million signatures across Europe. Eight countries have just passed the [...]
During the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Meeting, which was held in Nice, France from 7th to 9th February 2013, threshold levels and effecti[...]
Effective labelling is essential to enable allergic consumers manage their condition. Specific rules regarding the labelling of allergenic ingredients in pre-packed foods are established in European [...]
TERVEYDEN JA HYVINVOINNIN LAITOS Project context and objectives: Healthy housing and good indoor air quality are important goals of public health. Biological indoor pollution due to dampness, moistur[...]
In 2012 EUFIC launched www.coolfoodplanet.org, a new and exciting educational website for children, to help them learn about health, nutrition and food safety in a way that is engaging and fun.[...]
Published on: 16 April 2013 EFSA has updated the list of projects that will be put out for tender in 2013 under the Authority's grants and procurement programme. The calls for external support, which[...]
Launched last month, the coordinated EU-wide testing for horsemeat DNA and phenylbutazone requested, and co-financed, by the European Commission in the wake of the horsemeat scandal has revealed that[...]
Published on: 17 April 2013 EFSA relies on the expertise and judgement of hundreds of scientists to provide EU decision-makers with independent scientific advice on risks associated with the food cha[...]
Published on: 17 April 2013 Do you want to help shape the future direction of one of EFSA's key services? Then don't miss the opportunity to tell the Authority what you think about its Applications H[...]
Published on: 16 April 2013 EFSA is working closely with ECDC to help identify the origin of the recent outbreak of Hepatitis A virus infection in humans in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Hepat[...]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will provide advice on the impact on public health and animal health of the use of antibiotics in animals. The request was made by the European Commission as part [...]
Published on: 16 April 2013 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) could not conclude on the safety of genetically modified (GM) maize 98140 after the applicant failed to supply essential data to [...]
A joint assessment from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concludes that the illegal presence of residues of phenylbutazone in horsemeat is of low conc[...]
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Project context and objectives: MYCORED objectives are to develop novel solution driven methodologies, handling procedures and practically useful tools to reduce si[...]
Published on: 9 April 2013 EFSA's scientific experts say that it is currently not possible to identify which VTEC bacteria strains have the potential to cause human diseases. In order to help risk ma[...]
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Food Safety Authority launched their annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks. 09/04/2013 11:00[...]
Published on: 3 April 2013 Registration for those interested in participating as Observers in the May Plenary meeting of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) is now open. Please regis[...]
Food Today, science based information on food, nutrition and safety from EUFIC, the European Food Information Council. More than 17 million people in Europe suffer from food allergies, with 3.5 milli[...]
Published on: 27 March 2013 Microbiological and chemical hazards associated with mechanically separated meat derived from poultry and swine are similar to those related to non-mechanically separated [...]
Published on: 26 March 2013 Continuing its commitment to transparency and openness, EFSA will launch a public consultation in July on its draft scientific opinion on the possible risks to public heal[...]
Published on: 27 March 2013 EFSA has prioritised the food additives for which scientific data are required to finalise their re-evaluation within deadlines established by European legislation. The Au[...]
As agriculture ministers from the EU's member states agreed a negotiating position on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on the 19 March AGRIFISH Council meeting, the European Public Heal[...]
The European Parliament voted on its plenary session on 13 March on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). As part of this vote, an amendment concerning Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) wa[...]
Since the horse meat saga began in 2012, some of us have decided to eat more fish and seafood - after all, we have been told they are better for our health. Well, that may not be quite true today. Wh[...]
Organising European food and health research in a competitive and collaborative way is essential to turn taxpayer money into benefits for all. The new EU-funded project EuroDISH aims to assess the cu[...]
Last 19 March, agriculture ministers from the EU's member states agreed a negotiating position on reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. They reached an agreement on a number of issues: (1) the ge[...]
In a review published in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, researchers from University College Dublin looked at the regulatory basis for the authorisation of food additives and focused on the[...]
Published on: 14 March 2013 Letter to DG Sanco on EFSA Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticides risk assessment for bees for the active substance thiamethoxam (0.1 Mb) Letter to DG Sanco on EF[...]
Published on: The agenda and supporting documents for this meeting will be published about 2 days before the meeting date. All Management Board meetings are made available via on-demand webcast the d[...]
Published on: 14 March 2013 EFSA has made minor adjustments to its recent assessment of the risks to bees from pesticides containing the neonicotinoid active substance thiamethoxam. The changes, whic[...]
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