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New EFSA guidance identifies data that companies need to supply when applying for renewed authorisation to import genetically modified (GM) plants for food and feed into the European Union (EU). The...

EFSA is calling for feedback on its draft guidance on uncertainty in scientific assessment. The consultation is aimed at the international scientific community, European and national risk assessors...

Factors that affect the welfare of cows on small scale dairy farms are the same as those in other systems, EFSA experts have concluded. The scientific opinion published today reviews the information...

Following a comprehensive review, EFSA has published its scientific opinion on acrylamide in food. Experts from EFSA’s Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) have reconfirmed previous...

A new report is intended to further improve EFSA’s methods for dealing with data and evidence in its scientific assessments, and to shed new light on how the Authority develops its scientific outputs...

A new EFSA scientific statement reviews the different recommended safe levels of dioxins in food and feed. EFSA recommends and recently accepted a request from the European Commission for a...

EFSA has published its Scientific Opinion on the safety of caffeine, in which it estimates acute and daily intakes that raise no safety concerns for the general healthy population. The opinion also...

EFSA has proposed dietary reference values (DRVs) for calcium, as part of its continuing work on DRVs for European citizens. The Scientific Opinion was finalised following a six-week public...

EFSA has re-published its scientific opinion on the risks to public health from perchlorate in food, particularly in fruit and vegetables. Adopted in September 2014, the opinion has been revised...

Did you know that plastics and some ceramics used in food contact materials are regulated at European level and evaluated by EFSA for safety but a wide range of other materials – coatings, paper and...