85th Advisory Forum European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) meeting
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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125th Plenary meeting of the CONTAM Panel - Open for observers
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

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Risk Assessment of regulated products - Parma Summer School 2022
Monday, July 25, 2022

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EFSA findings on the animal welfare for transported animals
Monday, July 25, 2022

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Webinar: Application procedure for food enzymes, food flavourings and food ad...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The entry into application of the Transparency Regulation introduced new services, processes and provisions throughout the application lifecycle which affect – among others – business operators and applicants, including SMEs. .. read more..

3rd European conference on Xylella fastidiosa and XF-ACTORS final meeting
Thursday, April 22, 2021

The 3rd European conference on Xylella fastidiosa and the final meeting of the XF-ACTORS project will be held online together. .. read more..

Celebratory event for the entry into application of the Transparency Regulation
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

To mark the upcoming entry into application of the Transparency Regulation, the European Commission and the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, in collaboration with the European food safety authority (EFSA), jointly organise a celebratory virtual event on Tuesday 30 March 2021. .. read more..

GMO workshop on allergenicity assessment
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

The aim of the workshop is to set the scene on the current state-of-the-art in the science of GMO allergenicity assessment and to define what specific elements of such assessment need to be developed to move forward a field still in its infancy. The formulation of specific research requirements f... .. read more..

EFSA scientific colloquium: A coordinated approach to assess the human health...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

In 2016, the European food safety authority (EFSA) identified the need to generate more data on the occurrence levels of micro- and nanoplastics in food and on their potential effects on human health following exposure. Recently, international reports on micro- and nanoplastics have been publishe... .. read more..

Pest surveys following an outbreak: delimiting and buffer zone surveys
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

In the context of the new plant health regulation (EU) 2016/2031, EU countries are required to perform annual or multi-annual surveys of regulated pests. To support them in their surveillance activities, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has developed a toolkit, which addresses survey pre... .. read more..

Toolkit for plant pests surveillance
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

The introduction and spread of plant pests in the EU can have significant economic, social and environmental consequences. EU countries need to be ready to protect their plants and reassure European trade partners on the status of plant pests in the EU territory. The European Commission asked the... .. read more..

EFSA roundtable with industry associations
Monday, September 14, 2020

On 15 September, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will hold an online meeting between EFSA staff, the European Commission and representatives of industry associations, with the aim of increasing transparency and dialogue during EFSA’s risk assessment processes. .. read more..

Climate change as a driver of emerging risks for food and food safety, plant,...
Friday, July 24, 2020

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently completed the ‘Climate change and emerging risks for food safety’ (CLEFSA) project for developing and testing new methodologies for the identification, characterisation and analysis of emerging risks linked with climate change. .. read more..

High-risk plants: how does the EU carry out risk assessment of plant commodit...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

High-risk plants are defined by the EU as a group of plants, plant products and other objects whose introduction poses an unacceptable pest risk to the EU. The import of these plants into the EU is prohibited. .. read more..

25th scientific colloquium: Microplastics and nanoplastics in food and feed
Monday, November 25, 2019

The European food safety authority (EFSA) is holding a scientific colloquium with the following objectives: .. read more..

Technical stakeholder event: re-evaluation of authorised food additives – foc...
Monday, November 25, 2019

As part of the ongoing re-evaluation of authorised food additives, under Regulation (EC) No 257/2010, the European food safety authority (EFSA) is currently focussing on the safety assessment of sweeteners. .. read more..

Technical stakeholder event: cumulative risk assessment of pesticides in food
Monday, October 7, 2019

The European food safety authority (EFSA) is finalising two pilot risk assessments looking at the cumulative risks of pesticide residues in food. EFSA has performed retrospective assessments of cumulative risks for the nervous system and the thyroid using monitoring data from 2014, 2015 and 2016. .. read more..

Information session on applications for feed additives
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising a meeting with stakeholders in the field of feed additives. .. read more..

Workshop on the problem formulation for the environmental risk assessment of ...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Gene drives are molecular mechanisms that promote the efficient spread and inheritance of selected traits into populations. This emerging technology has sparked both enthusiasm and deep concerns. While gene drives can be used to control agricultural pests and invasive species, rescue endangered s... .. read more..

Stakeholder workshop on nanoscience and nanotechnology
Thursday, February 14, 2019

The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) published in July 2018 its Guidance on human and animal health aspects (Part 1) of the risk assessment of the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain. .. read more..

2nd European conference on Xylella fastidiosa
Friday, January 25, 2019

The conference is jointly organised by the European food safety authority (EFSA), the Corsica’s Conservatoire botanique national, the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding, the French National institute for agricultural research (INRA), the French agency for food, ... .. read more..

Regional workshop on one health approach against antimicrobial resistance in ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

The European centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) and the European food safety authority (EFSA), in close collaboration with the European Commission services DG SANTE and DG NEAR, are organising a regional workshop on one health approach against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in EU pr... .. read more..

Joint EFSA-BfR international conference on uncertainty in risk analysis
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) are jointly organising this international conference, which will be a forum for discussing the science behind uncertainty analysis and showcase best practices in conducting and communicating uncer... .. read more..

Stakeholder workshop on re-evaluation of food additives focusing on those use...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising a one-day stakeholder workshop on the data requirements for the re-evaluation of food additives used in foods for infants below 16 weeks of age. .. read more..

Workshop: In-vitro comparative metabolism studies in regulatory pesticide ris...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising a workshop for stakeholders involved in the peer review of pesticides and with experts in the field of in-vitro metabolism studies. These studies are the basis for the identification of human metabolites. In addition, metabolism studies have... .. read more..

European Week of bees and pollinators 2018 – Scientific symposium
Monday, June 11, 2018

Stakeholders of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will present details of the proposed EU bee partnership at a special scientific symposium in Brussels. The symposium is part of this year’s European Week of bees and pollinators, organised by the European Parliament. .. read more..

Webinar: Guidance document on safety of feed additives for target animals – W...
Friday, June 1, 2018

This webinar will explain the novelties of the guidance on the assessment of the safety of feed additives for the target species. The focus will be on the new approaches to provide evidence of safety of the additive, and to convey some helpful tips to prepare suitable submissions. .. read more..

EFSA scientific colloquium ‘OMICS in risk assessment: state-of-the-art and ne...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

In recent years, the development of innovative tools in Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics (designated collectively as OMICS technologies) has opened up new possibilities for applications in scientific research and led to the availability of vast amounts of analytical data. .. read more..

Presentation of the guidance on allergenicity assessment of genetically modif...
Friday, November 17, 2017

The webinar will present the guidance document of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) on allergenicity assessment of genetically modified (GM) plants. In this document, EFSA provides supplementary considerations and guidance on the practical implementation of new scientific and regulatory deve... .. read more..

Tips and tricks on the assessment of feed additives
Friday, November 17, 2017

The aim of this webinar is to help applicants better understand the principles behind the risk assessment of feed additives of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and improve the quality of their technical dossiers. This should lead to quicker assessment of applications and efficiency gains. .. read more..

Rapid risk assessment tools for animal disease outbreaks
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Rapid risk assessments are needed in the initial stage of a disease outbreak to help risk managers prepare and respond to possible health threats and to reduce the social and economic consequences of the threat. .. read more..

Stakeholder workshop on the re-evaluation of food additives
Thursday, October 19, 2017

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising a one-day stakeholder workshop on the status of the EU re-evaluation programme of food additives. .. read more..

Pre-accession training course on exposure assessment
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

This training is organised within the Pre-accession project 2015-2017 of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), financed by the European Commission under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA II). .. read more..

EFSA’s 3rd scientific conference
Thursday, October 5, 2017

What are the opportunities and challenges facing risk assessment science in the coming years? Technology is making our life easier, but what are the downsides? How can we anticipate trends in a rapidly changing world? .. read more..

Risk assessment research assembly (RARA)
Thursday, October 5, 2017

With a view to build a common understanding of the role of public funding for food safety research, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will bring together EU and national research funders, policymakers and leading food safety researchers to discuss the effective level of public funding for... .. read more..

Info session on applications – pesticides – technical meeting with stakeholde...
Friday, August 25, 2017

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) invites stakeholders for an exchange of views on the EFSA guidance on dermal absorption. The guidance, originally issued in 2012, was revised in 2017. The overall aim of this technical meeting is to elucidate the changes versus the guidance document issue... .. read more..

Scientific conference on the use of epidemiological findings in regulatory pe...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising a scientific conference with stakeholders to discuss a series of activities it has carried out in the past two years in the area of pesticides. In particular, discussions will focus on EFSA’s scientific opinion investigating the experimental... .. read more..

4th roundtable with industry associations
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will host the 4th roundtable with industry associations. The event is one of the services offered through EFSA’s catalogue of support initiatives during the life-cycle of applications for regulated products. For the first time, EFSA invited all representa... .. read more..

Joint EFSA/EBTC scientific colloquium on evidence integration in risk assessm...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Leading scientists from across the world will take part in a joint European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)/ Evidence Based Toxicology Collaboration (EBTC) colloquium to explore future directions for evidence integration in human risk assessment of chemicals. .. read more..

Pre-accession workshop on communications
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

This workshop is organised within the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) pre-accession project 2015-2017, financed by the European Commission under the instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA II). .. read more..

Collecting and sharing data on bee health: Towards a European bee partnership
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising, together with COPA-COGECA, the European Professional Beekeepers Association (EPBA), Bee Life (European Beekeeping Coordination) and the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), a scientific symposium on bee health as part of the Europea... .. read more..

Webinar: scientific aspects to consider when preparing a novel food application
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

This webinar, organised by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) will present practical case studies to illustrate key scientific issues regarding compositional data and the toxicological testing strategy when preparing for a novel food applications. Examples from past applications assessed by t... .. read more..

European conference on Xylella fastidiosa: finding answers to a global problem
Friday, March 3, 2017

This major scientific conference on European research into X. fastidiosa is organised jointly by the European food safety authority (EFSA), the University of the Balearic islands, the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding, and the EU Horizon 2020 projects POnTE and... .. read more..

Identification of emerging risks in food
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Since 2005, the International association for food protection (IAFP) European symposium has been shaping the future of food safety. .. read more..

EFSA info session on novel foods applications
Thursday, December 22, 2016

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is organising a meeting with stakeholders in the field of novel foods, including traditional foods from third countries, in order to provide guidance to applicants in preparing and presenting scientific data for novel foods applications and notifications ... .. read more..

OECD/EFSA workshop on developmental neurotoxicity (DNT): the use of non-anima...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) has been regarded as an area in need of methods development, as well as use in regulatory decisions, with a critical need for time- and cost- efficient predictive in vitro testing methods. In that effort, EFSA and the OECD are co-organising this workshop. .. read more..

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Hackathon
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Public administrators across Europe are using digital technologies to improve openness and transparency and find new ways of engaging with citizens and stakeholders. In this spirit, EFSA is holding a Hackathon competition to develop a mobile app that gives quick and user-friendly access to inform... .. read more..

Scientific Colloquium: epigenetics and risk assessment
Monday, April 18, 2016

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2016 Traineeship Programme – EFSA meets European universities
Monday, April 18, 2016

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about the EFSA’s traineeship programme 2016. .. read more..