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SIGMA Animal Disease Data Model: A comprehensive approach for the collection of standardised data on animal diseases

The European Commission is routinely asking EFSA for scientific and technical support in the epidemiological analysis of animal disease outbreaks (i.e. African swine fever, lumpy skin disease and avian influenza) and to report or assess surveillance data ...

2012 Update on cloning of farmed animals

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 ...

Findings in recent studies investigating sub-lethal effects in bees of some neonicotinoids

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 ...

EFSA Statement on the safety of Irradiation of Food

No abstract available Keywords: Food irradiation, efficacy, microbiological safety, food-borne pathogens, chemical food safety, radiolytic products, 2-alkylcyclobutanone, hydrocarbon, radiation dose doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2011.2107 Question Number: EFSA-Q ...

Update on the state of play of animal cloning

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 ...

Bovine besnoitiosis

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) asked the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare to deliver a scientific statement on bovine besnoitiosis. Recent epidemiological data confirm an increased number of cases and geographic expansion of besnoitiosis in c ...

Further Advice on the Implications of Animal Cloning (SCNT)

No abstract available doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2009.319r Question Number: EFSA-Q-2009-00449 Adopted: 23 June 2009 Last Updated: 24 November 2009 Type: Statement of EFSA ...

Consolidated presentation of the joint Scientific Opinion of the GMO and BIOHAZ Panels on the "Use of Antibiotic Resistance Genes as Marker Genes in Genetically Modified Plants” and the Scientific Opinion of the GMO Panel on “Consequences of the Opinion

No abstract available Keywords: Directive 2001/18/EC, Regulation 1829/2003, GMOs, GM plants, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance marker genes, safety, food safety, human health, environment, horizontal gene transfer, nptII, aadA. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2009 ...