Recent assessments of the risks to human health from dioxins and PCBs were performed by WHO (1998), EC Scientific Committee on Food, (SCF 2000 and 2001), WHO/FAO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA, 2002) and by various national authorities al ...
EFSA has just issued a summary report on its recent scientific colloquium on nutrient profiles, the conditions concerning the nutrient content of foods which will soon govern which foods are allowed to carry nutrition and health claims in the EU. The Euro ...
Some 90 scientists and stakeholders from 30 countries, including the USA and New Zealand, attended a meeting organised by EFSA on ‘Assessing health benefits of controlling Campylobacter in the food chain’ in Rome. It was the twelfth in the series of EFSA’ ...
Scientists debate low-dose hypothesis at EFSA’s international colloquium Over two days, 100 scientific experts exchanged views and debated the possible health effects of low levels of certain chemicals (the “low-dose hypothesis”) and the current and futur ...
The Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service hosts a conference entitled From Safer Food to Healthier Nutrition where views will be exchanged on nutrition-related diseases, and on strengthening the ability of public institutions to influence the eatin ...
About 60 participants attended a workshop on the updated EFSA guidance on the benchmark dose (BMD) approach, which took place in Brussels on 1-2 March 2017. Participants included representatives from food safety authorities across the EU, the European Med ...
