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EFSA has published two Scientific Opinions on environmental risk assessment (ERA), with a third to follow shortly. Reinhilde Schoonjans explains the issues at the heart of this major project. How is...

EFSA and its European partners have taken a major step forward in their work on assessing the cumulative risks from exposure to pesticides. A software tool has been developed for carrying out exposure...

EFSA has replied to criticism of the EU assessment of glyphosate that was overseen by the Authority last year. Christopher Portier sent a letter to Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU Commissioner for Health...

EFSA is to update its assessments of the risks to bees posed by three neonicotinoid pesticides. The new evaluations of clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid were requested by the European...

EFSA has published the background documents relating to its peer review of glyphosate. These are: the EFSA peer review report, containing the comments received during the different consultation phases...

EFSA and the EU Member States have finalised the re-assessment of glyphosate, a chemical that is used widely in pesticides. The report concludes that glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic...

EFSA will publish the EU peer review of the active substance glyphosate on 12 November in line with previous communication on EFSA’s website. Peer review in the EU In the EU, active substances used in...

EFSA’s scientists have recently made significant strides in addressing the issue of potential “endocrine disruptors” in pesticides. Their work is a response to recent EU rules that changed, from 2014...

Bees are under attack from many directions. Parasites, infectious agents, agro-chemicals and environmental changes are some of the stressors that are known to damage honeybee colonies. But how do...