Following a request from the European Commission, the Scientific Committee developed principles and guidance for the establishment of protocols for 90-day whole food/feed studies in rodents. The guidance complements the OECD Test guideline 408 and provide ...
The European Commission asked the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA GMO Panel) to update its 2006 scientific opinion on Post-Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM) of Genetically Modified Plants (GMPs). Fo ...
The scientific and technical guidance of the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies for the preparation and presentation of an application for authorisation of a health claim presents a common format for the organisation of information f ...
The European Food Safety Authority has developed a practical approach for assessing potential risks arising from applications of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain. Guidance is provided on: (i) the physico-chemical characterisatio ...
No abstract available Keywords: Health claims, scientific requirements, gut and immune doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2011.1984 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2010-01139 Journal Number: EFSA Journal 2011;9(4):1984 Panels: Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Aller ...
The BIOHAZ Panel of EFSA revised the joint AFC/BIOHAZ guidance on the submission of data for the evaluation of the efficacy of substances for the removal of microbial surface contamination of foods of animal origin. The guidance is intended to provide gui ...
In this opinion, EFSA’s Scientific Committee provides guidance on the scientific data needed to carry out a safety assessments of a botanical or a botanical preparation. It also proposes a two-tiered scientific approach for the safety assessment depending ...
No abstract available doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2006.388 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2006-008 Panels: Panel on Biological Hazards Adopted: 28 August 2006 Type: Guidance ...