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23 October 2014 | By European Food Safety Authority
New guidance from EFSA sets out for the first time a harmonised methodology for calculating exposure to pesticides for four major population groups - operators, workers, residents and bystanders...
21 October 2014 | By European Food Safety Authority
The French food safety agency and the European Food Safety Authority are organising a joint conference on October 28 and 29 to present an overview of the latest developments in knowledge on occupational exposure to pesticides...
10 October 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
The European Food Safety Authority presents further details on how to design and conduct a 90-day feeding study as part of an application to place a genetically modified organism on the market in the European Union...
2 October 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
The European Commission has launched an on-line consultation to help define criteria for “endocrine disruptors” as required by EU regulations on biocides and pesticides...
24 September 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
New guidance from EFSA’s Scientific Committee will help to provide greater transparency in relation to data, methods and assumptions used in the Authority’s scientific assessments...
8 September 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
The 38 human cases of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium detected recently in six Member States are likely to be part of the same cluster, a joint EFSA/ECDC report has found...
28 August 2014 | By European Food Safety Authority
Outbreaks and sporadic cases of Salmonella Enteritidis in Austria, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as one case reported in Luxembourg, appear to be linked by the time of symptom onset and microbiological characteristics of isolates...
4 August 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
EFSA has evaluated the requirements for the design of surveillance activities for food-borne pathogens in animals, feed and food when molecular typing methods are applied...
30 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
What are vector-borne diseases? What does EFSA do in this field? EFSA’s latest infographic answers these questions and others...
28 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
New guidance from EFSA includes a checklist of all the information that must be submitted as part of an application to put a food enzyme on the market in the European Union...
24 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
EFSA has recommended intake levels of energy, macronutrients and micronutrients in infant and follow-on formulae...
21 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
EFSA has developed a laboratory protocol on how to conduct new studies for investigating the presence of the agent of Atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in tissues of infected cattle...
10 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
EFSA is launching a public consultation on draft guidance that enables scientists to predict environmental concentrations of plant protection products and their transformation products in soil...
2 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
EFSA has confirmed previous evaluations that, based on animal studies, acrylamide in food potentially increases the risk of developing cancer for consumers in all age groups...
19 June 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
Rainfall, the use of contaminated water for irrigation or for applying pesticides, and contaminated equipment are among the factors that cause contamination of berries with Salmonella and norovirus...
