The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) were asked by the European Commission to develop a common Guidance Document for the implementation of the hazard‐based criteria to identify endocrine disruptors (ED) in the ...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on a Draft Scientific Guidance of the EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW Panel) on the assessm ...
The European Commission requested EFSA to compare the reliability of wild boar density estimates across the EU and to provide guidance to improve data collection methods. Currently, the only EU‐wide available data are hunting data. Their collection method ...
This document describes the lifecycle of cross‐cutting guidance documents in EFSA. Cross‐cutting guidance documents deal with matters of a horizontal nature in fields that affect scientific areas covered by more than one Panel. The main objective of devel ...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on human and animal health aspects (Part 1) of the risk assessment of nanoscience and nanotechnology appl ...
Managed and wild bees provide essential ecosystem services by pollinating crops and wild plants. Losses of managed honey bee colonies as well as the decline of many wild bee species in the EU and elsewhere have raised considerable concern about bee health ...
Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) is an emerging fungal pathogen of salamanders. Despite limited surveillance, Bsal was detected in kept salamanders populations in Belgium, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and in wild popula ...
To enhance cooperation with EU Member States on nanomaterials, EFSA established in 2010 the Network for Risk Assessment of Nanotechnologies in Food and Feed. This Network facilitates the exchange of information between EFSA and Member States, as well as t ...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the clarification of some aspects related to genotoxicity assessment. The draft opinion was prepared b ...
In accordance with EFSA’s strategy for cooperation and networking with Member States and the Management Board Decision concerning the establishment and operation of European Networks of scientific organisations operating in the fields within the Authority ...