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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
Updating DRVs: job done, after 10 years and 34 nutrients
The publication this week of dietary reference values (DRVs) for sodium and chloride marks the end of ten years of work by EFSA’s nutrition scientists. It started in 2009 after the...
Nutrition Dietary reference values
4 September 2019
Public consultation: chlorinated paraffins in food and feed
EFSA is seeking feedback from interested parties on its scientific opinion about the risks to human and animal health related to the presence of chlorinated paraffins in food and feed...
Chemical contaminants Feed additives
6 August 2019
Chlorpyrifos: assessment identifies human health effects
The pesticide chlorpyrifos does not meet the criteria required by legislation for the renewal of its approval in the European Union, EFSA has said in a statement. The approval period...
Pesticides
2 August 2019
Sugars opinion rescheduled to assess wealth of data
EFSA has updated the timeline for its scientific advice on dietary sugars due to the high volume of datasets and studies to be collected, analysed and assessed. EFSA has agreed a...
Nutrition
19 July 2019
Guidance on bees and pesticides: work plan published
EFSA has outlined how it plans to review its guidance on the risk assessment of pesticides and bees in the EU. As the outline shows, stakeholders and pesticide experts from Member...
Pesticides
5 July 2019
Sustainability, innovation, and perception of risks among research priorities for food safety
EFSA has identified research priorities for food safety for the next 5 to 10 years. Authors of an editorial published in the EFSA Journal looked at how research can stimulate...
Corporate
2 July 2019
App developer console opens up our food safety data
A new “developer portal” using application programming interface (API) technology makes EFSA’s information more accessible to software developers, allowing them to design creative new...
Data
1 July 2019
Bee health: EFSA’s work recognised at EU awards
EFSA’s work to raise awareness about bee health was recognised this week when it received the Excellence through Collaboration award from the EU Ombudsman. The Ombudsman’s awards...
Bee health
27 June 2019
Pesticide residues in food: what's the picture in the EU?
The latest edition of the annual EU report on pesticide residues in food is now available. Just under 96% of food samples were found to be free of pesticide residues or to contain...
Data Pesticides
26 June 2019

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