This report investigated how the applicability of TTC schemes can be improved by incorporating physicochemical data (both experimental and predicted) and toxicity data generated by non-testing methods such as Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships ...
To provide accurate data for risk assessment, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) has implemented and tested an electronic system for the transmission of food contaminant data to EFSA according to EFSA standards. Keywords: Chemical Occu ...
Data collection is an important task of EFSA and a fundamental component of risk assessment (Articles 22 and 23 of regulation EC No 178/2002). The Guidance on Standard Sample Description for Food and Feed and The Guidance on Data Exchange (both were devel ...
The present report describes the resources used and challenges meet in restructuring the Danish national data repositories for chemical contaminants and pesticides and in coding these according to the EFSA “Standard Model”. Keywords: Chemical, Occurrence ...
The Hungarian Food Safety Information System (FSIS) provides on-line link with the pesticide residue laboratories which submit the reports of the analyses directly to the central database. The Hungarian database applies unique codes for individual food it ...
Within the Service-level agreement (SLA), EFSA and JRC have extended the threat detection system MedISys to food & feed hazards. The media coverage of MedISys has been extended by 300 sources (task 1a of SLA). Over 200 filters for common food & fe ...
Clarity of scientific advice is vital if public authorities are to make the best risk management decisions and if these are to be understood and widely supported by stakeholders, consumers and industry alike. It is therefore essential that the opinions of ...
In the European Union, data collection on zoonoses and zoonotic agents in animals, food and feed, as laid down in Directive 2003/99/EC, is mainly based on the systems in place in the Member States. Consequently, collected data cannot be directly compared ...
Within the EFSA Article 36 project “European Tool Usual Intake” (ETUI) a workshop was organised in May 2010 where the different available models to calculate usual intake were presented and discussed. This report integrates the workshop background documen ...
No abstract available Keywords: Rabies, fox, surveillance, harmonisation, EU, animal, risk, disease, reporting. doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2010.EN-67 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2010-00078 Type: External Scientific Report ...