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EFSA issues guiding principles for two-year whole food studies
EFSA has set out guiding principles that will help scientists carry out two-year whole food feeding studies to assess the risk of cancer and/or toxicity from the long-term...
Cross-cutting science
GMO
31 July 2013
Assessing “chemical mixtures” – current approaches and future priorities
People, animals and the environment can be exposed to multiple chemicals at once from a variety of sources, but current risk assessment is usually carried out on one chemical...
Cross-cutting science
Chemicals in food
Chemical mixtures
12 July 2013
EFSA supports European Commission in defining scientific criteria for endocrine disruptors
Endocrine active substances are chemicals that can interact or interfere with normal hormonal activity; when this leads to adverse effects they are called endocrine disruptors....
Cross-cutting science
Endocrine active substances
Chemicals in food
20 March 2013
Endocrine disruptors: EFSA to deliver scientific opinion in March 2013
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that may interfere with the hormonal system. At the request of the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is preparing a...
Food ingredients and packaging
Pesticides
Cross-cutting science
Endocrine active substances
Chemical contaminants
Dioxins and PCBs
Brominated flame retardants
1 October 2012
Animal cloning: EFSA reiterates safety of derived food products but underscores animal health & welfare issues
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today published a scientific statement upon request from the European Commission that takes into consideration the latest research on...
Cross-cutting science
Cloning
5 July 2012
EFSA provides guidance on possible use of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern approach in chemical risk assessment
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a new scientific opinion on the potential use of the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach for estimating possible...
Cross-cutting science
Chemicals in food
Threshold of toxicological concern
2 July 2012
Assessing the safety of genotoxic and carcinogenic impurities: the Margin of Exposure approach
Risk assessors at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) use the Margin of Exposure (MOE) approach to consider possible safety concerns arising from the presence in food and feed...
Cross-cutting science
Margin of exposure
30 March 2012
EFSA proposes harmonised default values for use in its risk assessment
When carrying out risk assessments, scientists may need to use default values at different stages of the evaluation process. Default values and assumptions can be of a methodological...
Cross-cutting science
7 March 2012
EFSA publishes general guidance on 90-day feeding studies on whole food and feed
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its first general guidance for carrying out 90-day feeding studies on whole food and feed in rodents. It will support...
Cross-cutting science
7 December 2011
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