EFSA Journal

Scientific Guidance for the preparation of applications on smoke flavouring primary products

Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA developed updated scientific guidance to assist applicants in the preparation of applications on smoke flavouring primary products. This guidance describes the scientific data to be included in the ap ...

Draft for internal testing Scientific Committee guidance on appraising and integrating evidence from epidemiological studies for use in EFSA's scientific assessments

EFSA requested its Scientific Committee to prepare a guidance document on appraising and integrating evidence from epidemiological studies for use in EFSA's scientific assessments. The guidance document provides an introduction to epidemiological stu ...

International Conference on Uncertainty in Risk Analysis

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) organised the International Conference on Uncertainty in Risk Analysis. Its aim was to bring together internationally recognized leaders of uncertainty an ...

Update: methodological principles and scientific methods to be taken into account when establishing Reference Points for Action (RPAs) for non‐allowed pharmacologically active substances present in food of animal origin

EFSA was asked by the European Commission to update the Scientific Opinion on methodological principles and scientific methods to be taken into account when establishing Reference Points for Action (RPAs) for non‐allowed pharmacologically active substance ...

Guidance on the assessment criteria for applications for new or modified stunning methods regarding animal protection at the time of killing

This guidance defines the process for handling applications on new or modified stunning methods and the parameters that will be assessed by the EFSA Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) Panel. The applications, received through the European Commission, should ...

Guidance on Uncertainty Analysis in Scientific Assessments

Uncertainty analysis is the process of identifying limitations in scientific knowledge and evaluating their implications for scientific conclusions. It is therefore relevant in all EFSA’s scientific assessments and also necessary, to ensure that the asses ...

Workshop on the trial of the EFSA guidance document on uncertainty analysis in scientific assessments 22- 23 June 2017 Parma, Italy

No abstract available. Keywords: uncertainty, scientific assessment, decision-making, possible outcomes, probability, qualitative, quantitative, trial doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2017.EN-1313 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2017-00465 Adopted: 27 November 2017 Type: ...

BMD approach in risk assessment

The Scientific Committee (SC) reconfirms that the benchmark dose (BMD) approach is a scientifically more advanced method compared to the NOAEL approach for deriving a Reference Point (RP). Most of the modifications made to the SC guidance of 2009 concern ...

EFSA Workshop on Increasing Robustness, Transparency and Openness of Scientific Assessments 29-30 June 2015, Brussels

No abstract available. Keywords: evidence, weight, biological relevance, uncertainty, robust, assessment, transparency doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2015.EN-913 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2015-00175 Adopted: 10 December 2015 Type: Event report ...

Review of cross-cutting guidance

To increase transparency and harmonisation, EFSA asked the Scientific Committee for advice on how cross-cutting guidance documents should be used across EFSA, reviewed and kept up-to-date. The Committee examined 23 documents that should be applied consist ...

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