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EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°1: Methodologies and principles for setting tolerable intake levels for dioxins, furans and dioxin-like PCB’s

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 Scientific Colloquium N°7: Cumulative Risk Assessment of Pesticides to Human Health: the Way forward

EFSA’s 7th scientific colloquium “Cumulative Risk Assessment of Pesticides to Human Health: the Way forward was held in Parma on 28 and 29 November 2006. It was attended by some 100 participants from nearly all Member States, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, US ...

EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°11: Acrylamide carcinogenicity- New evidence in relation to dietary exposure- 22 and 23 May 2008, Tabiano (PR), Italy

Eighty scientists from 22 countries, mainly from the European Union, and also Switzerland, the United States and Brazil, gathered at a scientific colloquium organised by EFSA in Tabiano near Parma, Italy, to debate the current state and future challenge ...

EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°17: Low dose response in toxicology and risk assessment

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 ...

EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°22 ‘Epigenetics and Risk Assessment: Where do we stand?’

Webcast and documents Epigenetics and risk assessment: EFSA’s scientific colloquium charts way ahead “We have identified what we do know and what we don’t know. And that is a big achievement,” Prof Sandra Ceccatelli of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockho ...

EFSA scientific colloquium “Omics in risk assessment: state-of-the-art and next steps”

In recent years the development of innovative tools in Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics (designated collectively as OMICs technologies) has opened up new possibilities for applications in scientific research and led to the availabili ...

Technical hearing on the Genotoxicity assessment of chemical mixtures

Background Human and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals (‘chemical mixtures’) poses a number of challenges to scientists, risk assessors and risk managers, particularly because of the complexity of the problem formulatio ...

Call for abstracts – Scientific Colloquium 25 “A coordinated approach to assess the human health risks of micro- and nanoplastics in food"

Call for abstracts We are pleased to announce a call for abstract submissions for consideration at EFSA’s 25th Scientific Colloquium "A coordinated approach to assess the human health risks of micro- and nanoplastics in food". Call for abstract ...