A number of projects have recently started at EFSA to address individual and cross-cutting methodological issues within the whole scientific assessment landscape. All these activities aim to contribute to producing more robust, transparent and open scient ...
EFSA has established the Stakeholder Consultative Group on Emerging Risks (StaCG-ER) in order to improve the exchange of data and information on methods, as well as dialogue on issues pertaining to emerging risks, ensuring a high level of openness and tra ...
No abstract available Keywords: verocytotoxin-producing E. coli, molecular subtyping, cluster analysis, Standard Operating Procedure doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2014.EN-708 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2013-00905 Contact: data.collection@efsa.europa.eu On request ...
In September 2014, the EFSA Advisory Forum decided to reconsider the format of the network and address the issue of harmonising risk assessment methodologies by means of dedicated workshops focusing on specific issues linked to EFSA’s guidance development ...
EFSA established an Emerging Risks Exchange Network (EREN) to exchange information between EFSA and the MSs on possible emerging risks for food and feed safety in 2010. The Network is currently composed of delegates from 21 Member States and an EFTA count ...
At EFSA’s request, the Plant Health Panel (PLH) performed an environmental risk assessment (ERA) of the apple snail for the EU and validated the ERA approach presented in the PLH ERA guidance document. Improvements and suggestions for simplification of th ...
This scientific report provides a review of modern methodologies and tools to depict toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic processes and their application for the human hazard assessment of chemicals. The application of these methods is illustrated with example ...