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The European Food Risk Assessment (EU‐FORA) Fellowship work programme ‘Integration of tools and social science into food safety risk assessments’ was proposed and delivered by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), UK. The Food Standards Agency is a non‐ministe ...
In the kitchen of the consumer, two main transmission routes are relevant for quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA): the cross‐contamination route, where a pathogen on a food product may evade heating by transmission via hands, kitchen utens ...
In the last decades, there is an increasing inclusion of various trace metals and metalloids such as thallium, tellurium and rare earth elements (REEs; lanthanides, scandium, and yttrium) in the composition and production of alloys, in agricultural and me ...
Plastics are used ubiquitously and have become part of our everyday life. The global production of plastics is rising, which in consequence is leading to increasing amounts of plastics being released into the environment. Recently, the issue of human expo ...
Phthalates are a group of diesters of phthalic acid and have been widely used by the industry as plasticisers giving flexibility and durability to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. Commonly their uses vary from plasticisers in food contact materials and ...
The current risk assessment was performed in the context of the European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme (EU‐FORA) supported by EFSA and was intended to evaluate possible health risks associated with the consumption of Annona muricata L. (Annona ...
The European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme (EU‐FORA) is an initiative by EFSA, aimed at building scientific capacity in food safety risk assessment in the EU. Current paper reports on the activities of this fellow, undertaken in participation ...
Approval of active substances and authorisation of plant protection products in the EU is made based on a strict risk assessment of the agronomic use of the plant protection products. Regulation 1107/2009 regulates the procedure in the EU with complex pro ...
Unsafe food poses global health threats, potentially endangering consumers. The great majority of people will experience a food‐borne disease at some point in their lives. Ready‐to‐eat (RTE) food is the one intended by the producer or the manufacturer for ...