Bats are an important group of mammals, frequently foraging in farmland and potentially exposed to pesticides. This statement considers whether the current risk assessment performed for birds and ground dwelling mammals exposed to pesticides is also prote ...
In accordance with Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No. 396/2005, European Union (EU) Member States have to communicate to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) the results of their official controls on pesticide residues in food. In the framework of thi ...
The European Commission requested EFSA to provide a statement in the framework of Article 43 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 on the dietary risk assessment for the proposed temporary maximum residue levels (MRLs) (6 and 7 mg/kg) for chlormequat in cultivat ...
The European Union (EU) pesticides Regulation established that in vitro comparative metabolism studies shall be performed. At present an Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) test guideline for this kind of studies is not availab ...
To facilitate the practical implementation of the guidance on the residue definition for dietary risk assessment, EFSA has organized an evaluation of applicability of existing in silico models for predicting the genotoxicity of pesticides and their metabo ...
According to Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, EFSA shall provide within 12 months from the date of the inclusion or non‐inclusion of an active substance in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC a reasoned opinion on the review of the existing maxim ...
The main goal of the Framework Partnership Agreement project is to put in place a relevant organisation in order to improve gathering, checking, storage and providing of data from national monitoring programs to EFSA. By accepting to participate in the pi ...
The study described in this report was conducted with the aim of developing an unified database of ecological data and residue data to be used for the risk assessment of plant protection products for birds and mammals. The main sources of data were the in ...
EFSA is conducting pan‐European dietary exposure and risk assessments related to actual levels of pesticide residues in food commodities. These assessments use the pesticide occurrence data generated under the official monitoring programs of Member States ...
In the framework of the project ‘Database of processing techniques and processing factors compatible with the EFSA food classification and description system FoodEx2’ a compendium of representative processing techniques was prepared as a result of Object ...