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EFSA has set population reference intakes for vitamin C and adequate intakes for manganese as part of its ongoing work on Dietary Reference Values (DRVs). At the request of the European Commission...

The use of milk-based “growing-up” formula does not bring additional value to a balanced diet in meeting the nutritional requirements of young children in the European Union, EFSA has said. EFSA’s...

Under EU rules, authorisations for feed additives must be renewed every ten years. EFSA has published guidance that outlines the information that applicants need to include in their dossiers, in line...

EFSA participated in a joint conference with the EU-funded FoodRisC project earlier this month. The conference marked the end of this three-and-a-half-year research programme into consumer perceptions...

EFSA’s nutrition experts have continued their work on Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) by publishing their first pieces of advice on micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). The two scientific opinions...

EFSA has launched a public consultation on its Scientific Opinion proposing adequate levels of manganese intake for adults and children. Comments on the opinion, which is part of the Authority’s...

EFSA’s Scientific Committee has carried out a review of its cross-cutting risk assessment Guidance Documents to identify gaps requiring either the development of new guidance or the revision of...

EFSA has set out guiding principles that will help scientists carry out two-year whole food feeding studies to assess the risk of cancer and/or toxicity from the long-term consumption of such foods by...

EFSA’s Panel on Plant Health has launched public consultations on two scientific opinions related to the health of citrus plants: the first assesses the risk from two strains of Xanthomonas campestris...

EFSA has concluded that advantame and its metabolites pose no safety concern for consumers at the proposed uses and use levels as a sweetener. Advantame is an artificial sweetener that is thousands of...

More than 100 international bee specialists from a broad range of scientific disciplines and representing various institutions met in Parma earlier this year for EFSA’s Scientific Colloquium entitled...

EFSA’s scientific experts have provisionally concluded that for all population groups diet is the major source of exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and exposure is lower than previously estimated by EFSA...