EFSA Journal

Outcome of the public consultation on the terms of reference for the development of a guidance document on “Harmonisation of risk assessment methodologies for human health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals”

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the draft terms of reference for the development of a Scientific Committee guidance on “Harmonisation ...

User manual for data providers for mapping Member State standard terminology to EFSA standard terminology

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is tasked with coordinating the reporting of zoonoses, zoonotic agents, animal populations, antimicrobial resistance and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union (EU) under Directive 2003/99/EC, as well as analy ...

Data dictionaries—guidelines for reporting data on zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance and food-borne outbreaks using the EFSA data models for the Data Collection Framework (DCF) to be used in 2017, for 2016 data

This technical report of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) presents guidance to reporting European Union (EU) Member States (MSs) and non-Member States in data submission using extensible markup language (XML) data transfer covering the reporting ...

Manual for reporting on zoonoses and zoonotic agents, within the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC, and on some other pathogenic microbiological agents for information deriving from the year 2016

This reporting manual provides guidance for reporting on zoonoses and zoonotic agents in animals, food and feed under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and also on the reporting of other pathogenic microbiological agents in food. The objective is to h ...

Manual for reporting on food-borne outbreaks in accordance with Directive 2003/99/EC for information deriving from the year 2016

This manual provides specific guidance for reporting on food-borne outbreaks under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC. It is based on the reporting format described in the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report on ‘Updated technical specification ...

Manual for reporting on antimicrobial resistance within the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and Decision 2013/652/EU for information deriving from the year 2016

This manual provides guidance for reporting antimicrobial resistance under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and Implementing Commission Decision 2013/652/EU in food-producing animals and foodstuffs derived thereof. The objective is to harmonise and s ...

Horizon 2020: EFSA’s Priority Research Topics

In 2011, the European Commission established Horizon 2020, the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the first calls for research projects were launched in 2014. Horizon 2020 has three main research priorities Part I: Excellent Science; ...

Technical Specifications on TSE data collection in the EU

EFSA has received a mandate from the European Commission (EC) regarding the transfer to EFSA of (1) the data collection system for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) under Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 starting from 2018 and (2) the preparation ...

2016 Annual report of the Nano Network

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 ...

EFSA's activities on emerging risks in 2015

Eighteen potential emerging issues were presented for the first time in 2015 by the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks Unit, the Emerging Risks Exchange Network, and/or the Stakeholder Consultative Group o ...

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