EFSA’s 5th Science Colloquium was held on 21-22 March 2006 with over 60 participants to discuss the state-of-the-art of scientific approaches being the basis for the development of food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG). It became clear that the 1998 WHO/FA ...
EFSA’s 4th Science Colloquium was held on 1-2 December 2005 in Parma and brought together over 90 experts to have an open scientific debate on the conduct and components of risk assessment for animal diseases and animal welfare. One of the overall conclus ...
EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°3 was held on 28-29 April 2005 in Brussels. This colloquium debated strategies that could lead to the establishment of a European food consumption data base to overcome current gaps existing in the EU. The Exposure Wor ...
A variety of bacterial and fungal species are used in food and feed production. Some of these have a long history of safe use, while others may represent a putative risk for consumers. In order to capture important risk aspects without wasting resources o ...
Recent assessments of the risks to human health from dioxins and PCBs were performed by WHO (1998), EC Scientific Committee on Food, (SCF 2000 and 2001), WHO/FAO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA, 2002) and by various national authorities al ...