Background On 30 January 2020, the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) endorsed its draft scientific opinion on the risks to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food (EFSA-Q-2017-00549) for p ...
Second European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa Around 350 plant health specialists from around the world gathered in Corsica for two days of intensive discussions on how science can help find solutions to Xylella fastidiosa, the plant pest that is causi ...
Background EFSA organised a web meeting with stakeholders to present its draft opinions on dietary reference values (DRVs) for sodium and chloride. DRVs guide professionals on the amount of a nutrient needed to maintain health in otherwise healthy people. ...
logo.jpg EFSA and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) are jointly holding an International Conference on Uncertainty in Risk Analysis, subheaded “Challenges and Advances in Assessing, Managing and Communicating Uncertainty”, in Berlin o ...
Background Human and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals (‘chemical mixtures’) poses a number of challenges to scientists, risk assessors and risk managers, particularly because of the complexity of the problem formulatio ...