Smoke flavourings: Q&A with Wim Mennes, EFSA’s working group chair on flavourings

Smoke flavourings serve as an alternative to traditional smoking, a long-standing practice used to preserve certain foods such as fish, meat, and dairy products. The smoking process also changes their flavour.

EFSA advises on vaccination strategies to combat avian influenza in poultry

New scientific opinion assesses available vaccines and their efficacy against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus in poultry and provides advice about possible vaccination strategies.

Introducing TKPlate - food safety without animal testing?

A new platform for modelling and predicting the toxicity of chemicals and what happens to them inside humans and animals marks an important milestone on the road to a future with less or no animal testing in food safety.

Glyphosate: no critical areas of concern; data gaps identified

These are the main findings of EFSA’s peer review of the risk assessment of glyphosate, carried out by authorities in four Member States.

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One Health: EFSA joins forces with EU agencies

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EFSA and its sister agencies providing scientific advice on environment, public health and food safety have published a...

Plant pests on the horizon? New EFSA dashboard to spot them

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In collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the French Agency for Food...

Avian influenza: EFSA recommends increased protection of farms from wild birds

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As the autumn migratory season starts, the protection of poultry and other farmed animals from wild birds should be...

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