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Pesticides: EFSA to examine emergency use of neonicotinoids
EFSA is to assess a number of emergency authorisations granted by Member States for the use of neonicotinoids in sugar beet in 2020. The request from the European Commission covers 21 emergency authorisations of clothianidin, imidacloprid,...
8 December 2020
Pesticides
Edible insects: the science of novel food evaluations
Today’s batch of EFSA scientific opinions on novel food applications includes the first completed assessment of a proposed insect-derived food product. Our safety evaluations are a...
Novel food
13 January 2021
New rules on transparency: detailed arrangements for stakeholders
The new regulation aimed at increasing the transparency of risk assessment in the food chain becomes applicable on 27 March 2021. As part of the implementation process, EFSA has...
Corporate
11 January 2021
Feed additives: new guidance for renewal of authorisation
EFSA has published new guidance on the information applicants need to include in their dossiers for the renewal of the authorisation of feed additives. Feed additives are authorised...
Feed additives
7 January 2021
Farewell to Vittorio Silano: 1940-2020
Vittorio Silano, one of EFSA’s most longstanding and highly respected scientists, has died at the age of 80. Vittorio had been a stalwart of EFSA since its inception, having served as...
23 December 2020
Pesticides: EFSA to examine emergency use of neonicotinoids
EFSA is to assess a number of emergency authorisations granted by Member States for the use of neonicotinoids in sugar beet in 2020. The request from the European Commission covers 21...
Pesticides
8 December 2020
‘Use by’ or ‘best before’? New tool to support food operators
EFSA has developed a tool to help food business operators decide when to apply the ‘use by’ or ‘best before’ date to their products. The ‘use by’ date on food is about safety – foods...
Biological hazards
2 December 2020
Existing guidance appropriate for assessment of genome editing in plants
Genome editing techniques that modify the DNA of plants do not pose more hazards than conventional breeding or techniques that introduce new DNA into a plant, an EFSA assessment...
New advances in biotechnology
24 November 2020
Avian influenza: virus spreading rapidly in Europe
The risk of avian influenza moving into previously unaffected European countries is high, according to an update published today by EFSA which shows that the virus is spreading rapidly...
Animal health
Avian influenza
20 November 2020
Calling on risk communication experts and specialists
EFSA’s social scientists have completed a draft assessment of risk communication theory and best practice. The work will support the European Commission implement a new provision of...
Communications
19 November 2020
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