Prof Anthony Hardy, Chair of EFSA’s Scientific Committee, reports on discussions about EFSA’s draft guidance on communicating uncertainty and on assessing chemical mixtures, and the ongoing review of EFSA’s 20-30 cross-cutting guidance documents used in i ...
10:00- 11:00 (GMT+01:00) Agenda Summary The goal of the webinar was to: Provide context to the the additive usage template by explaining why data on use of additives is needed. Describe the main features of the template and the information/data that is re ...
Agenda for Part 1 Agenda for Part 2 Summary The goal of the webinar was to: Provide theoretical and practical support to those who report data to EFSA using the FoodEx2 classification system; Present the functionalities (basic and advanced) of FoodEx2 ...
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 ...
Find out about the latest adoptions and discussions on cross-cutting developments by EFSA's Scientific Committee. Follow our future video reports on EFSA's expert meetings! #OpenEFSA Draft Agenda Updated on 16 November 2018 (126.51 KB) Minutes ( ...
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EFSA held a one-and-a-half-day workshop on the implementation of its guidance on the risk assessment of applications of nanosciences and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain. The workshop was an opportunity for stakeholders, EFSA and its experts to ...
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. ...
On 15 May, EFSA met stakeholders and EU Member States to discuss plausible environmental risks associated with the release of gene drive modified insects into the environment. Gene drives consist of genetic elements that can pass traits among sexually rep ...
Background EFSA is holding an information session with stakeholders to present the EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental concentrations of active substances of plant protection products and transformation products of these active substances ...
