EFSA publishes all its scientific outputs, including its scientific opinions, in the EFSA Journal. It also issues a range of supporting publications. See also Definitions of EFSA Scientific Outputs and Supporting Publications.
In May 2013, Germany reported cases of hepatitis A virus (HAV) genotype IA infection in persons with a travel history and Italy reported a national increase in the number of HAV cases and declared an outbreak. Confirmed cases (outbreak strain KF182323) ha ...
No abstract available Keywords: literature searching, inventory, systematic reviews, information sources, databases, relative recall. doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2014.EN-593 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2011-01128 Adopted: 14 May 2014 Contact: amu@efsa.europa.eu ...
This scientific report provides an overview of all research carried out on Schmallenberg virus (SBV), reviewing the current knowledge on SBV regarding genotyping findings, susceptible species, pathogenesis, transmission routes, immunity, seroprevalence, g ...
This report represents the results of a feasibility study to investigate whether farmer/ producer associations/ federations can serve as sentinel surveillance networks for the detection of adverse events in the health of agricultural plants and animals an ...
In applied sciences in general, and in particular when dealing with animal health and welfare assessments, one is often confronted with the collection of correlated data (not independent data). This generic term embraces a multitude of data structures, su ...
To provide assistance to the SAS Unit of EFSA in the production of a standardised statistical programming practices document for SAS and R software packages this report proposes program templates and corresponding manuals for R and SAS. The templates are ...
This report summarises the “current” statistical programming methods and practices at EFSA, which were obtained by reviewing scientific outputs and associated statistical R and SAS programs and interviewing selected EFSA staff. The assessment was based on ...
Systematic reviews (SR) are an evidence synthesis approach that provides robust and transparent answers to clearly formulated questions. Originally developed for use in clinical practice, SRs have wider applicability, including food and feed safety risk a ...
No abstract available Keywords: Absence of infection, data collection, freedom from disease, reporting, risk-based, surveillance, wildlife doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2973 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2012-00640 Journal Number: EFSA Journal 2012;10(11):2973 A ...
This project comprised the development of a commodity-based hazard identification protocol for biological hazards in plants and animals as a decision support tree programmed in Excel. The content of the decision tree is based on the results of a systemati ...
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