The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received in December 2011, a request from the European Commission for an update on the possible scientific developments for cloning of farmed animals for food production purposes. The present Statement follows the ...
The European Food Safety Authority was asked by the European Commission to assess the scientific information on some neonicotinoids (i.e. thiamethoxam, clothianidin and imidacloprid) and fipronil gathered by the Italian authorities with a funded project n ...
The European Food Safety Authority was requested to perform a comparison between the doses of several neonicotinoids tested in the studies from Henry et al. (honeybees, thiamethoxam) and Whitehorn et al., (bumblebees, imidacloprid) published in Science (2 ...
In accordance with Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, France has granted an authorisation for spinosad on raspberries. In order to accommodate for the emergency use of spinosad France proposed to raise the existing MRL for raspberries from 0.3 mg ...
In accordance with Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, France has granted an authorisation for spinetoram on cherries, raspberries and blueberries. In order to accommodate for the emergency use of spinetoram, France proposed to raise the existing ...
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 on Maximum Residue Levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin requires the Member States to monitor pesticide residue levels in food commodities and submit the monitoring results to EFSA and the Euro ...
This Guidance of EFSA provides instructions on how to identify and select “ scientific peer-reviewed open literature ” and how to report it in a dossier, as required by Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 on the placing of plant protection produc ...
On 07 May 2009, EFSA issued a statement on the potential risk for public health due to the presence of nicotine in wild mushrooms. Questions about this statement of EFSA were raised by the Chinese authorities. This position was further clarified by means ...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received in May 2010, a request from the European Commission for an update on the state of play of the possible scientific developments on the issue of cloning of farmed animals for food production purposes. The p ...
Systematic reviews are commonly used in human health research to provide overviews of existing evidence pertinent to clearly formulated specific questions, using pre-specified and standardised methods to identify and critically appraise relevant research, ...