EFSA and Joint Research Centre renew cooperation agreement
On 26 June 2018, Vladimír Šucha, JRC Director General, and Bernhard Url, Executive Director of EFSA, renewed the collaboration agreement between the two institutions - ©European Union, 2018
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and EFSA have renewed their commitment to work together in a variety of scientific and technical areas related to food and feed safety, animal health and welfare, plant health and nutritionThe science of how diet relates to the body's need for sustenance.
EFSA Executive Director Bernhard Url was at JRC today to discuss future cooperation with JRC Director General Vladimír Šucha, as the heads of the two organisations signed a renewed Collaboration Agreement.
Both institutions emphasised exchange and joint activities on:
- sectoral food and feed legislation (e.g. GMOs, feed additives, or pesticides)
- alternative methods to protect animals
- combined exposureConcentration or amount of a particular substance that is taken in by an individual, population or ecosystem in a specific frequency over a certain amount of time of chemicals and chemical mixtures
- collection and use of landscape and environmental data for use in risk assessmentA specialised field of applied science that involves reviewing scientific data and studies in order to evaluate risks associated with certain hazards. It involves four steps: hazard identification, hazard characterisation, exposure assessment and risk characterisation.
For more information see the JRC website.
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