Furan is formed in a variety of heat-treated commercial foods and contributes to the sensory properties of the product. Furan has been shown to be carcinogenic in animal experiments. The European Commission requested that Member States collect data on fur ...
Zoonoses are infections that are transmissible between animals and humans. Zoonotic bacteria that are resistant to antimicrobials are of special concern since they might compromise the effective treatment of infections in humans. For the year 2008, 25 Eur ...
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 ...
A European Union-wide baseline survey on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was conducted in 2008 in holdings with breeding pigs. A total of 1,600 holdings housing and selling mainly breeding pigs (breeding holdings), and 3,473 holdings ho ...
Commission Recommendation 2007/331/EC of 3 May 2007 on the monitoring of acrylamide levels in food requires the Member States to perform annually in 2007, 2008 and 2009 the monitoring of acrylamide levels in certain foodstuffs. The current report describe ...
Environmentally persistent dioxins and dioxin-like compounds include 29 congeners of dioxins, furans and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) with similar toxic effects, their quantification commonly expressed as toxic equivalent units according to their varyi ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been recognised as an important cause of hospital-associated infections in humans for several decades. MRSA is resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics. The MRSA lineage ST398 (MRSA ST398) has ...
No abstract available Keywords: Results on the monitoring of acrylamide levels in food doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2009.285r Question Number: EFSA-Q-2008-343 Type: Scientific Report ...
No abstract available Keywords: Report of the CONTAM Panel on provisional findings on furan in food doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2004.137 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2004-109 Adopted: 7 December 2004 Last Updated: 30 November 2005 Type: Scientific Report ...