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- Nitrosamines in food raise a health concern
Consumer exposure to nitrosamines, compounds that can form in food during its preparation and processing, raises a health concern. This is the finding of EFSA's assessment on the public health risk...
- Pesticides in food
EFSA's latest annual report on pesticide residues in food covers more than 88,000 food samples collected in the European Union in 2020. Analysis of the results shows that 94.9% of samples fell ...
- Listeria in frozen vegetables: how to reduce risks
EFSA has assessed the risks to public health from Listeria contamination of vegetables that are blanched - scalded in hot water or steam for a short time - before they are frozen. They conclude tha... - Public consultation: new recommendations for applicants on whole genome sequence analysis of microorganisms
EFSA is consulting on its statement on how to conduct and describe the whole genome sequence (WGS) analysis of microorganisms added to food and feed. The document provides guidance to applicant...
- App developer console opens up our food safety data
A new "developer portal" using application programming interface (API) technology makes EFSA's information more accessible to software developers, allowing them to design creative new apps and tool... - EFSA to share data on open-access platform
EFSA has taken a major step towards becoming a fully open data organisation by committing to publish the scientific data it uses for EU-wide monitoring programmes and surveys and many of its risk a...
- Furan in food - EFSA confirms health concerns
Consumer exposure to furan and methylfurans in food could lead to possible long-term liver damage. The most exposed group of people are infants, mainly through consumption of ready-to-eat jarred or... - Reviewing safety of glutamates added to food
EFSA has established a safe intake level for glutamic acid and glutamates used as food additives after re-evaluating their safety. The Authority also concluded that estimated dietary exposure to gl... - Endocrine disruptors: major step towards protecting citizens and environment
Member States representatives voted in favour of the European Commission's proposal on scientific criteria to identify endocrine disruptors in the field of plant protection products. This is an imp... - EFSA Annual Activity Report 2016 published
EFSA completed the strategic review of its work and published the EFSA Strategy 2020: "Trusted science for safe food" as its new guiding document, introducing the mission statement "Trusted science... - Making mercury measurements in food more reliable
JRC scientists developed a new certified reference material (CRM) to improve the accuracy of methylmercury measurements in food. This CRM (ERM-AE671) consists of isotopically labelled methylmercury...
- Update on non-monotonic dose response
A new EFSA external scientific report is "a useful contribution to the scientific debate" on non-monotonic dose response (NMDR) results from toxicity studies, according to Prof Anthony Hardy, Chair... - Process contaminants in vegetable oils and foods
Glycerol-based process contaminants found in palm oil, but also in other vegetable oils, margarines and some processed foods, raise potential health concerns for average consumers of these foods in... - European scientists join forces in fighting ciguatoxin food poisoning
A cooperation project on ciguatoxin food poisoning involving 13 organisations from six Member States and EFSA is taking shape. Representatives of Spain and EFSA signed a Framework Partnership Agree... - Contamination of food supplements with PAHs
Scientists from the JRC-hosted European Reference Laboratory for PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) tested 94 food supplements including botanical, oil and bee products collected from the Euro...
- Flavouring substance considered a safety concern
The flavouring substance p-Mentha-1,8-dien-7-al (also called "Perilla aldehyde") has been shown to be genotoxic (damaging to DNA) in a new study on animals, evaluated by EFSA's experts. Under EFSA'... - Data on chemicals in food: an annual overview for the general public
Traces of chemicals are sometimes detected in food and drinks: pesticides in fruit and vegetables, veterinary drugs in meat and other animal-derived products, or environmental contaminants in vario... - Simple method of binding pollutants in water
It was not until January 2015 that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) lowered the threshold value for bisphenol A in packaging. The hormonally active bulk chemical is among other things a ba...
- Cumulative Assessment Group Methodology for Pesticides
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has developed a new approach for grouping pesticides that paves the way for the implementation of cumulative risk assessment - a sophisticated technique to...
- EFSA publishes first practical guidance for assessing nano applications in food & feed
The European Food Safety Authority has today published a guidance document for the risk assessment of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed. The guidance is the work of the Au...
- EFSA confirms BfR position on detection methods for algal toxins in mussels
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated regulatory limits and detection methods for biotoxins in mussels. Up to now an animal experiment in mice had been prescribed as the reference...