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7 March 2016 | By Victoria White
New pesticides guidance has been finalised that harmonises the way terrestrial field dissipation studies are conducted in different regions of the world...
3 March 2016 | By Victoria White
#Efsa4Bees will contain essential information about EFSA’s project on the risk assessment of multiple stressors in bees as well as other relevant work in areas such as pesticides...
29 February 2016 | By Victoria White
More than 130 leading experts on viruses in the food chain have taken part in the first International Workshop on Foodborne Viruses...
22 February 2016 | By Dimitra Tsantaki, International Commercial Litigation and Food lawyer, Tsantaki, Michalinos & Tsalmanis Law Firm / Georgios Siragakis, Technical Director of Food Allergens Labs Group
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated nearly 3,000 ‘general function’ claims and more than 250 other applications over the past few years. In the list of health claims which has been made on foods, as referred to in Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, a health…
27 January 2016 | By Victoria White
EFSA and its partners have developed a software tool for carrying out exposure assessments of multiple pesticides...
20 January 2016 | By Victoria White
As well as revising the general scientific guidance, EFSA has updated its specific guidance for claims related to the immune system and the gastro-intestinal tract...
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The latest annual report by EFSA and ECDC has found that human cases of listeriosis and campylobacteriosis rose once again in 2014, continuing an upward trend that began in 2008...
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Since October 2013, a strain of this bacterium is spreading in Apulia (Italy) in its ancient olive groves. The region provides much of the country’s olive oil exports to the world...
21 October 2015 | By Victoria White
EFSA's comprehensive review of the available scientific evidence has revealed no indication that isoflavones at levels typically found in food supplements cause harm to post-menopausal women...
8 October 2015 | By Victoria White
EFSA has created a risk profile that identifies the potential hazards as well as allergenicity and environmental hazards associated with the use of farmed insects...
27 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The flavouring substance Perilla aldehyde has been shown to be genotoxic (damaging to DNA) in a new study on animals, evaluated by EFSA experts...
1 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Storage times and CO2 content in packaging are the two main factors that influence the effect of temperature on histamine formation in fishery products...
1 July 2015 | By Victoria White
EFSA has proposed dietary reference values for copper, an essential micronutrient that is necessary for electron transfer processes...
4 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Experts from EFSA’s Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain have reconfirmed that acrylamide in food potentially increases the risk of developing cancer...
1 June 2015 | By Victoria White
EFSA has published its Scientific Opinion on the safety of caffeine, in which it estimates intakes that raise no safety concerns for the general population...
