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Welfare of cattle during killing for purposes other than slaughter on‐farm killing of cattle

10-12-2020

Published on: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 Cattle of different ages may have to be killed on farm for purposes other than slaughter (the latter being defined as killing for human consumption) either individually or on a large scale, e.g. for economic reasons...

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Livestock Health and Food Chain Risk Assessment

10-12-2020

Published on: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 The EUropean FOod Risk Assessment (EU‐FORA) Fellowship work programme ‘Livestock Health and Food Chain Risk Assessment’, funded by EFSA was proposed by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK. A scientist...

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Identification of risk factors and hotspots of antibiotic resistance along the food chain using next‐generation sequencing

10-12-2020

Published on: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 Bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is considered to be very alarming following an upward trend and thus posing a primary threat to public health. AMR has tremendous adverse effects on humans, farm animals,...

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Risk Assessment of Food Contact Materials

10-12-2020

Published on: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 Food contact materials (FCM) can contain chemicals that could migrate from the material itself to the foodstuff posing health concerns if ingested in non‐safe quantities by the consumer. FCM include containers,...

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Risk assessment and toxicological research on micro‐ and nanoplastics after oral exposure via food products

10-12-2020

Published on: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 Plastics are used ubiquitously and have become part of our everyday life. The global production of plastics is rising, which in consequence is leading to increasing amounts of plastics being released into the...

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Integration of tools and social science into food safety risk assessments

10-12-2020

Published on: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 The European Food Risk Assessment (EU‐FORA) Fellowship work programme ‘Integration of tools and social science into food safety risk assessments’ was proposed and delivered by the Food Standards Agency (FSA),...

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Foreword

10-12-2020

Published on: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 No abstract available. © European Food Safety Authority, 2015 Foreword

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Risk assessment related to food additives and food processing‐derived chemical contaminants exposure for the Portuguese populat

10-12-2020

Published on: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 The European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship Programme (EU‐FORA) is an initiative by EFSA, aimed at building scientific capacity in food safety risk assessment in the EU. Current paper reports on the activities of...

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Improving models of wild boar hunting yield distribution: new insights for predictions at fine spatial resolution

09-12-2020

Published on: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 ENETWILD consortium has developed methodologies for modelling wild boar abundance distribution based on hunting yield (HY) data. Although the methodologies reached an acceptable reliability, when models were...

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Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis (serotype H‐14) st

09-12-2020

Published on: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 The conclusions of EFSA following the peer review of the initial risk assessments carried out by the competent authorities of the rapporteur Member State Sweden and co‐rapporteur Member State Spain for the pesticide...

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Evaluation of confirmatory data following the Article 12 MRL review and setting of an import tolerance for flutriafol in cucurb

09-12-2020

Published on: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 The applicant Cheminova A/S submitted a request to the competent national authority in the United Kingdom to evaluate the confirmatory data for the active substance flutriafol that were identified in the framework of...

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Outcome of the consultation with Member States and EFSA on the basic substance application for approval of sunflower oil for th

09-12-2020

Published on: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked by the European Commission to provide scientific assistance with respect to the evaluation of applications received by the European Commission concerning basic...

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