The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Diabrotica virgifera zeae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), the Mexican corn rootworm, for the EU. This is one of two subspecies of D. virgifera which occurs in Central America, Mexico and c ...
The European Commission asked EFSA for a Scientific Opinion: to revise the state of knowledge about the differences between the chronic wasting disease (CWD) strains found in North America (NA) and Europe and within Europe; to review new scientific eviden ...
The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Diabrotica barberi (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), the northern corn rootworm, for the EU. D. barberi is a univoltine species occurring in mid‐western and eastern USA and Canada, where it ...
The EFSA received from the European Commission a mandate to revise its previous review of the existing maximum residue levels (MRLs) for glyphosate taking into account additional data that were erroneously omitted in the evaluation report supporting the o ...
The Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of non‐EU Acleris spp. Acleris is a well‐defined insect genus in the family Tortricidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Species can be identified using taxonomic keys based on adult morphology and genitali ...
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a risk assessment of the entry of Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii on maize seed imported by the EU from the USA. This pest is a Gram‐negative bacterium which cau ...
The applicant BASF SE submitted a request to the competent national authority in the Netherlands to evaluate the confirmatory data that were identified for active substance metazachlor in the framework of the review of maximum residue levels (MRLs) under ...
In accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, the applicant H.L Hutchinson Ltd submitted a request to the competent national authority in the United Kingdom to modify the existing maximum residue level (MRL) for the active substance pyraclo ...
The applicant DuPont de Nemours (Deutschland) GmbH submitted a request to the competent national authority in Austria to evaluate confirmatory data identified for cymoxanil in the framework of the maximum residue level (MRL) review under Article 12 of Reg ...
According to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, EFSA has reviewed the maximum residue levels (MRLs) currently established at European level for the pesticide active substance penflufen. To assess the occurrence of penflufen residues in plants, pro ...