EFSA Journal

Protocol for the scientific opinion on the Tolerable Upper Intake Level of dietary sugars

In June 2016, EFSA received a mandate from the national food competent authorities of five European countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) to provide a dietary reference value (DRV) for sugars, with particular attention to added sugars. ...

Machine learning techniques for the automation of literature reviews and systematic reviews in EFSA

This Report presents the results from EFSA project RC/EFSA/AMU/2016/01 related to the implementation of machine learning techniques for literature reviews and systematic reviews in EFSA. An overview of the different steps of a systematic review is provide ...

Third report on the update and maintenance of EFSA's Chemical Hazards Database

The present document is a summary of the update and maintenance of the EFSA's Chemical Hazards Database that has been established few years ago to map the hazard data as collected from the EFSA opinions, statements and conclusions; more specifically ...

Guidance for the identification of endocrine disruptors in the context of Regulations (EU) No 528/2012 and (EC) No 1107/2009

This Guidance describes how to perform hazard identification for endocrine-disrupting properties by following the scientific criteria which are outlined in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2100 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/605 for biocidal ...

Final report: Clear Communications and Uncertainty

This report presents the results from an exploratory study in 2016 on clear communication of scientific assessment results. It had a specific focus on the communication of scientific uncertainties in EFSA scientific opinions. Qualitative methods were appl ...

Summary Report of Joint VKM and EFSA Symposium on risk assessment and risk management cooperation on environmental protection goals

No abstract available. Keywords: protection goals, environmental risk assessment, biodiversity, ecosystem services, plant protection products, genetically modified organisms, invasive alien organisms doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2018.EN-1405 Question Number: E ...

EU Insights – Consumer perceptions of emerging risks in the food chain

No abstract available. Keywords: emerging risks, uncertainty, ambiguity, communication, risk perception doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2018.EN-1394 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2018-00227 Adopted: 11 April 2018 Contact: scer@efsa.europa.eu On request from: EFSA Ty ...

GP/EFSA/NUTRI/2014/01 Scientific substantiation of health claims made on food: collection, collation and critical analysis of information in relation to claimed effects, outcome variables and methods of measurement

No abstract available. Keywords: health claims; outcome variables; methods of measurement; data collection; data collation; data analysis. doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2018.EN-1272 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2014-00497 Adopted: 19 July 2017 Contact: nda@efsa.eu ...

OC/EFSA/SCER/2014/02-Lot 1 “Specialised training courses on certain aspects of food safety risk assessment for members of EFSA's Scientific Committee/Panels and their working groups, open to EFSA staff” –final report

No abstract available. Keywords: Finalreport, Training course, Environmental Risk Assessment, Addressing uncertainty in EFSA’s scientific assessments doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2017.EN-1346 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2014-00892 Adopted: 27 October 2017 Contact ...

OC/EFSA/SCER/2014/02-Lot 2 “Specialised training courses on certain aspects of food safety risk assessment for members of EFSA's Scientific Committee/Panels and their working groups, open to EFSA staff” –final report

No abstract available. Keywords: Benchmark Dose Approach, BMD,PROAST, BMDS, QSAR, Computational Toxicology, Read Across, Threshold of Toxicological Concern, TTC, OECD QSAR Toolbox doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2017.EN-1347 Question Number: EFSA-Q-2014-00893 Ado ...

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