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 ...
About 60 participants attended a workshop on the updated EFSA guidance on the benchmark dose (BMD) approach, which took place in Brussels on 1-2 March 2017. Participants included representatives from food safety authorities across the EU, the European Med ...
Leading experts and practitioners of regulatory science from across Europe and beyond took part in a workshop organised by EFSA to gather feedback and insights on the Authority’s on-going efforts to harmonise and strengthen the cross-cutting methodologies ...
1st meeting of the EFSA Scientific Network on Harmonisation of Risk Assessment methodologies EFSA is uniquely positioned to promote harmonised methodologies given its role as a hub for risk assessment expertise in Europe. The collective decisions of the A ...
Agenda The International Food Information Council Foundation’s Global Diet and Physical Activity Communications Summit on "Insights to Motivate Healthful, Active Lifestyles" considered the use of science-based, behaviour-focused communications t ...
The two-day seminar was organised as a part of EFSA Pre-Accession Programme 2009-2010 for Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries. The overall objective of the Programme is to promote the understanding of EFSA’s work, share expertise and create inform ...
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientists organised a special meeting with nutrition experts from Member States to exchange views on draft opinions published in the area of Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) covering fats, carbohydrates, fibres and wa ...
Recent assessments of the risks to human health from dioxins and PCBs were performed by WHO (1998), EC Scientific Committee on Food, (SCF 2000 and 2001), WHO/FAO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA, 2002) and by various national authorities al ...