EFSA Journal

Statement of the GMO and BIOHAZ Panels on the assessment of scientific elements supporting the prohibition of GM potato EH92-527-1 for cultivation in Austria

Austria notified to the European Commission its ordinance implementing a national safeguard measure prohibiting the placing on the market of GM potato EH92-527-1 for cultivation purposes in Austria, after which the European Commission asked the European F ...

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 ...

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and wood packaging material

No abstract available Keywords: Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, European Union, pine wood nematode, United States of America, wood packaging material doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1497 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2010-00056 Journal Number: EFSA Journal 2010; 8(1): ...

Cold treatment of strawberry plants to eliminate Bemisia tabaci

Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Plant Health examined the report “Evaluation of Strawberry Nursery Plant Cold Treatments on Survival of the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci ”, submitted to the European Commission by the United ...

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 ...

Inability to assess the safety of a silver hydrosol added for nutritional purposes as a source of silver in food supplements and the bioavailability of silver from this source based on the supporting dossier [1]- Scientific Statement of the Panel on Food

No abstract available Keywords: Food supplements, silver hydrosol, silver, CAS 7440-22-4, EINECS 231-131-3 doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2008.884 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2005-169 Panels: Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings Panel members at the time of adopt ...

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