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In June 2024, EFSA’s Management Board approved a new Independence Policy, further strengthening the way in which the Authority manages the interests of its scientific experts and all professionals...

EFSA and EU Member States carried out a risk assessment and peer review thereof for the active substance glyphosate. It is the most comprehensive and transparent assessment of a pesticide that EFSA...

EFSA was asked by five European countries to set a science-based Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for dietary sugars from all sources.

In June 2017, EFSA’s Management Board adopted a new Independence Policy, providing a framework for the management of the interests of its scientific experts.

This summary explains why nitrites and nitrates are present in food, and what EFSA’s experts concluded on their safety.

EFSA’s Panel on Animal Health and Welfare has examined issues surrounding the slaughter of pregnant farmed animals in the European Union.

This non-specialist summary provides an explanation of the main findings of EFSA’s Conclusion on glyphosate.

Acrylamide is a chemical that naturally forms in starchy food products during every-day high-temperature cooking.

Caffeine is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in plant constituents such as coffee and cocoa beans, tea leaves, and the kola nut.

EFSA’s experts estimated the exposure to BPA from dietary and non-dietary sources, and assessed the human health risks posed by exposure to BPA.

With about 200,000 human cases every year, campylobacteriosis is the most frequently reported food-borne illness in the European Union (EU).

Salmonella is a bacterium that can cause an illness called salmonellosis. In the European Union over 90,000 salmonellosis cases are reported every year.