Food alerts

Safety of l‐threonine produced by fermentation with Escherichia coli CGMCC 11473 as a feed additive for all animal species

07-11-2019

Published on: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 The l‐threonine under assessment is produced by fermentation with a genetically modified strain of Escherichia coli and it is intended to be used as a nutritional additive for all animal species. In 2017 the Panel...

Read more

EFSA Catalogue Browser User Guide

07-11-2019

Published on: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 The Catalogue browser is a Java® based application developed with the ECLIPSE® environment, which allows the browsing, analysis and maintenance of EFSA catalogues. It is directly connected with the Data Collection...

Read more

EFSA FoodEx2 Interpreting and Checking Tool user guide

07-11-2019

Published on: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 The EFSA FoodEx2 Interpreting and Checking Tool is a Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet,developed by the Evidence Management Unit of the European Food Safety Authority as an add‐on the EFSA Catalogue browser. It is able...

Read more

Scientific opinion on the risks for animal and human health related to the presence of quinolizidine alkaloids in feed and food

07-11-2019

Published on: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 The European Commission asked EFSA for a scientific opinion on the risks for animal and human health related to the presence of quinolizidine alkaloids (QAs) in feed and food. This risk assessment is limited to QAs...

Read more

Extensive literature search and selection for relevance of studies related to the chemistry and toxicity of glycoalkaloids and

07-11-2019

Published on: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 This report presents the outcome of extensive literature search on studies related to the chemistry and toxicity of glycoalkaloids and quinolizidine alkaloids in food and feed. The systematic literature search...

Read more

Outcome of a public consultation on the draft scientific opinion on the risks for animal and human health related to the presen

07-11-2019

Published on: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from interested parties on a draft scientific opinion on the risks for animal and human health related to the presence of...

Read more

Risk assessment of African swine fever in the south‐eastern countries of Europe

07-11-2019

Published on: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 The European Commission requested EFSA to estimate the risk of spread of African swine fever (ASF) and to identify potential risk factors (indicators) for the spread of ASF, given introduction in the south‐eastern...

Read more

Safety of Lactococcus lactis NCIMB 30160 as a feed additive for all animal species

07-11-2019

Published on: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 Following a request from European Commission, the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety for the environment of the proposed...

Read more

Statement complementing the EFSA Scientific Opinion on application (EFSA‐GMO‐UK‐2006‐34) for authorisation of food and feed con

07-11-2019

Published on: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 Following a request from the European Commission, the GMO Panel assessed additional information related to the application for authorisation of food and feed containing, consisting of and produced from genetically...

Read more

Review of the existing maximum residue levels for glyphosate according to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 – revised v

07-11-2019

Published on: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 The EFSA received from the European Commission a mandate to revise its previous review of the existing maximum residue levels (MRLs) for glyphosate taking into account additional data that were erroneously omitted in...

Read more

Pest categorisation of non‐EU Acleris spp.

07-11-2019

Published on: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 The Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of non‐EU Acleris spp. Acleris is a well‐defined insect genus in the family Tortricidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Species can be identified using taxonomic...

Read more

Re‐evaluation of sulphuric acid and its sodium, potassium, calcium and ammonium salts (E 513, 514 (i), 514 (ii), 515 (i), 515 (

07-11-2019

Published on: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 The Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF) provided a scientific opinion re‐evaluating the safety of sulphuric acid (E 513) and its sodium (E 514), potassium (E 515), calcium (E 516) and ammonium (E 517)...

Read more

Top10 searches

Latest annoucement

Weather warnings

ATTENTION - WEATHER WARNING

Read more

Latest downloads

Tobacco: larger warnings, flavours banned, e-cigarettes regulated

Latest searches

Evaluation of confirmatory data following the Article 12 MRL review for chlorothalonil, including assessments for import tolera
Facebook