In 2005, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received a mandate from the European Commission to review the existing advice of the Scientific Committee for Food (SCF) published in 1993 on Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) for energy, macro- and micronu ...
No abstract available doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2015.EN-860 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2014-00857 Adopted: 27 July 2015 Contact: pesticides.ppr@efsa.europa.eu Type: External Scientific Report ...
3-Monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD), and 2-monochloropropane-1,3-diol (2-MCPD), are substances that might be generated in the processing of food. EU legislation specifies maximum levels for 3-MCPD in hydrolysed vegetable proteins and soya sauce. However ...
Previous studies on the safety of caffeine have been published by the Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) in 1983, 1999 and 2003. In the latter assessment, the SCF concluded that caffeine would not exacerbate the adverse effects of alcohol. A recent study ...
For this review a comprehensive literature search was carried out to identify human intervention studies, which investigated the effect of differences in composition of low and very low calorie diets on adverse metabolic effects. We identified 2653 papers ...
Many of the current policy issues that have to be addressed are suffering from large uncertainties, while decision stakes are high. Addressing the uncertainties explicitly in risk assessments becomes especially important when addressing such issues. This ...
No abstract available doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2014.EN-702 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2013-00570 Adopted: 25 November 2014 Contact: data.collection@efsa.europa.eu On request from: EFSA Type: External Scientific Report ...
No abstract available doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2014.EN-703 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2013-00062 Adopted: 12 December 2014 Contact: data.collection@efsa.europa.eu On request from: EFSA Type: External Scientific Report ...
No abstract available Keywords: verocytotoxin-producing E. coli, molecular subtyping, cluster analysis, Standard Operating Procedure doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2014.EN-704 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2014-00063 Contact: data.collection@efsa.europa.eu On request ...
EFSA commissioned this study to determine the impact of science grant and procurement projects, signed in 2009-2012, on delivery of EFSA’s tasks. The results of the review will be used by EFSA to draw conclusions with regard to grant and procurement proje ...