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Food safety: simplified approach to make food donations easier
EFSA has developed a new food safety management approach that makes it simpler for small retailers to donate food. The simplified system would mean that retailers are not required to have detailed knowledge of specific hazards. It includes steps...
7 November 2018
Biological hazards
Science, food, society: EFSA conference 2018 – day 2
After putting risk assessment in a societal context during yesterday’s opening plenary, the EFSA Conference today focuses on advancing risk assessment science. In four break-out...
Corporate
19 September 2018
EFSA conference opens with call to harness the ‘power of collaboration’
More than 1,000 representatives of national food safety agencies, research institutes, international organisations, EU bodies, consumer groups and other stakeholder organisations...
Corporate
18 September 2018
Food chemical occurrence data: nominations open for stakeholder group
EFSA is inviting nominations for membership of its stakeholder discussion group on food chemical occurrence data. Networking with stakeholders, Member States, EU and international...
Stakeholders
12 September 2018
Xylella: host plant database updated
EFSA has completed two pieces of work that substantially expand knowledge and understanding of Xylella fastidiosa, the plant pathogen that is attacking fruit trees and other plants in...
Plant health Xylella fastidiosa
10 September 2018
BPA update: working group to start reviewing new studies
A new EFSA working group of scientific experts will start evaluating recent toxicological data on the food contact material bisphenol A (BPA) this month. EFSA’s Panel on Food Contact...
Food ingredients and packaging Bisphenol A Food contact materials
4 September 2018
Third external evaluation of EFSA – progress made, recommendations for improvement
EFSA has published the third external evaluation of its activities, covering the period from 2011 to 2016, assessing progress made in implementing previous recommendations and...
Corporate
23 August 2018
Multi country Salmonella Agona outbreak possibly linked to ready-to-eat food
Five European countries have reported 147 people infected with the strains of Salmonella Agona – with 122 cases occurring since the beginning of 2017 and the remaining 25 identified...
Biological hazards Pesticides
26 July 2018
Pesticides in food: latest figures remain steady
Europeans continue to eat food that is largely free of pesticide residues or which contains levels of residues within legal limits, the latest monitoring figures show. More than 96%...
Pesticides
25 July 2018
Openfoodtox: over 300 substances added to EFSA chemical hazards database
EFSA’s OpenFoodTox database on chemical hazards now includes data on over 4,750 chemical substances following the addition of 321 substances. The database is also more accessible now...
Cross-cutting science DATA
19 July 2018

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