EFSA received a mandate from the European Commission (EC) to re-assess the elements linked to the establishment of the health-based guidance value in the opinion on cadmium in food of the EFSA’s CONTAM panel (EFSA, 2009a). The CONTAM Unit asked support fr ...
Following a request from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), carried out a revised exposure assessment of steviol glycosides from its use as a food additive, for children and adults, based on the revised proposed uses prese ...
The Biel maze data presented by Stump et al. (2010) were reanalysed by EFSA using statistical methods that took the censoring into consideration along with key experimental and design features. The results showed that it cannot be concluded that there is ...
The main purpose of this work is to quantitatively compare the efficiency of the microbiological monitoring programmes at process level of Australia and Europe, using a model-based approach. Based on data collected from a literature review and from the Au ...
Prevalences in terms of the number of eggs contaminated (internally and externally) with Salmonella Enteritidis per million are presented based on a 2 stage Bayesian model. The first stage estimates the average flock prevalence over laying period in the p ...
Following a request from the Commission, a revised exposure assessment of lycopene from use as a food colour and from natural occurrence, for children and adults, was carried out using the proposed revised maximum and typical use levels according to a ran ...
Following a request from the European Commission for scientific assistance, the EFSA examined whether the current risk assessments of authorised acids, phenols and alcohols as well as these of the cations lithium, copper, barium, cobalt and manganese cove ...
No abstract available Keywords: Available data on notified biocides efficacy under field conditions (compared to sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate) doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2009.259r Question Number: EFSA-Q-2009-00492 Journal Number: EFSA Journal 2009; ...