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Environmental risk: urgent need for harmonisation
There is an urgent need for harmonisation of environmental risk assessment in different scientific fields. That was the overall conclusion from a symposium on risk assessment and risk...
Scientific cooperation
Environmental risk assessment
20 April 2018
Pesticides guidance aims to harmonise field testing
New pesticides guidance has been finalised that harmonises the way terrestrial field dissipation studies (TFDs) are conducted in different regions of the world. The guidance was...
Pesticides
Environmental risk assessment
1 March 2016
Environmental risk: harmonising assessment, protecting biodiversity
EFSA has published two Scientific Opinions on environmental risk assessment (ERA), with a third to follow shortly. Reinhilde Schoonjans explains the issues at the heart of this major...
Cross-cutting science
Environmental risk assessment
Pesticides
Plant health
GMO
3 February 2016
Apple snail poses a serious threat to south European wetlands
The apple snail could have massive consequences for biodiversity if it establishes in the freshwater wetlands of southern Europe. The risk is high for species such as amphibians and...
Plant health
Environmental risk assessment
Invasive alien species
30 April 2014
Pesticides and protected crops – EFSA presents environmental risk assessment guidance
New guidance from EFSA provides a framework for carrying out environmental risk assessment of pesticides emitted from protected crops – those grown in greenhouses and under cover. The...
Pesticides
Environmental risk assessment
20 March 2014
Call for European research network to address bee losses
Closer cooperation among EU agencies, Member States and researchers is urgently needed to improve understanding of how multiple stressors damage bee health. That is one of the...
Bee health
Environmental risk assessment
13 March 2014
The apple snail: a creeping threat to the environment?
The apple snails Pomacea maculata and P.canaliculata are some of the largest freshwater snails. They consume vast amounts of rice and can devastate the flora and fauna of natural...
Environmental risk assessment
Plant health
18 February 2014
EFSA reviews apple snail threat
EFSA has reviewed the current scientific literature on the biology and ecology of the apple snail (Pomacea maculata and P.canaliculata), and refined its assessment of the potential...
Plant health
Environmental risk assessment
12 December 2013
Insufficient data stop EFSA from concluding on safety of GM maize 3272
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said it cannot reach a conclusion on the safety of genetically modified (GM) maize 3272 after the applicant failed to provide key...
GMO
Environmental risk assessment
20 June 2013
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