EFSA Journal

Outcome of the public consultation on the draft Guidance of the EFSA PLH Panel on quantitative pest risk assessment

EFSA has carried out a public consultation on the draft Guidance of the EFSA Scientific Panel on Plant Health (PLH Panel) on quantitative pest risk assessment with the aim of collecting input from the scientific community and all interested parties. The d ...

SIGMA A comprehensive animal disease data collection approach

The European Commission is asking EFSA for scientific and technical support in the epidemiological analysis of animal disease outbreaks (i.e. African swine fever, lumpy skin disease and avian influenza) and to assess surveillance data (i.e. Echinococcus m ...

Risk Assessment Research Assembly

A Risk Assessment Research Assembly (RARA) was convened by EFSA, with the following objectives: build and support the case for future public funding of research in food safety; coordinate research agenda setting to ensure impact of food safety research; a ...

Work‐plan and methodology for EFSA to develop plant pest survey guidelines for EU Member States

The European Commission requested EFSA to facilitate the Member States in the planning and execution of their survey activities. In particular, EFSA is asked to provide scientific and technical guidelines in the context of the new plant health regime (Reg ...

EFSA Scientific Colloquium 23 – Joint European Food Safety Authority and Evidence‐Based Toxicology Collaboration Colloquium Evidence integration in risk assessment: the science of combining apples and oranges 25–26 October 2017 Lisbon, Portugal

In evidence‐based scientific assessments, evidence synthesis is the step that occurs after collecting the data relevant to a clearly formulated research question and appraising the validity of the studies selected for the assessment, according to structur ...

Protocol for the evaluation of data concerning the necessity of the application of fungicide active substances to control a serious danger to plant health which cannot be contained by other available means, including non-chemical methods

Following a request from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) initiated a procedure for the evaluation of data supporting the necessity of the application of fungicide active substances to control a serious danger to plant he ...

Susceptibility of Olea europaea L. varieties to Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca ST53: systematic literature search up to 24 March 2017

EFSA was requested by the European Commission to produce a report on the susceptibility of olive varieties to the Apulian strain of Xylella fastidiosa (subsp. pauca strain CoDiRO, ST53). A systematic literature search identified 21 references providing re ...

Protocol for the evaluation of data concerning the necessity of the application of insecticide active substances to control a serious danger to plant health which cannot be contained by other available means, including non-chemical methods

Following a request from the European Commission (EC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) initiated a procedure for the evaluation of data supporting the necessity of the application of insecticide active substances to control a serious danger to p ...

Pre-Accession Study visit to the Croatian food safety authorities

No abstract available. Keywords: Pre-Accession, Croatian food agency, Study visit) doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2017.EN-1179 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2014-00879 Adopted: 3 February 2017 Type: Event report ...

EFSA Scientific Colloquium 22 – Epigenetics and Risk Assessment: Where do we stand?

No abstract available. Keywords: epigenetics, scientific colloquium, risk assessment, DNA methylation, histone acetylation, non-coding RNA doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2016.EN-1129 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2016-00555 Adopted: 23 November 2016 Type: Event repo ...

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