European Food Authority

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Authority, and laying down procedures in matters of food (Official Journal of the European Communities (C96 E) of 27 March 2001, pp. 247-68). 

In November 2000, the Commission proposed the creation of a European Food Authority (EFA), which would take over responsibility for much of the food safety risk assessment work at present carried out by the Commission and... 

EFSA - European Food Safety Authority (2009) Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on a request from the European Commission on cadmium in food. EFSA J 980(2009) 1-139... 

EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) (2008) The EFSA Journal 653... 

European Food Safety Authority (2008) Scientific Report 186,1-109. Conclusion on the peer review of bifenthrin. http //www.efsa.europa.eu/en/scdocs/doc/186r.pdf. Accessed 14 Feb 2011... 

The European Food Safety Authority (EESA) (2006) Advice of the scientific panel on contaminants in the food chain on a request from the Commission related to relevant chemical compounds in the group of hrominated flame retardants for monitoring in feed and food. EFSA J 328 1. http //www.efsa.europe.eu... 

EFSA (2005) Opinion of the Scientific Panel on food additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact with food (AFC). European Food Safety Authority, http //www.efsa. europa.eu/EFSA/ScientiflcPanels/efsa locale-l 178620753812 AFC.htm... 

The provisional tolerable daily intake (TDI) values proposed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA 2008) and Health Protection Agency (HPA 2009) amount to 150 ng/kg body weight (bwt)/d and 300 ng/kg bwt/d, for PFOS and PFOA, respectively. 

According to the Directive, an active substance cannot be used in a PPP unless it is included in an EU positive list. The Directive also requires very extensive risk assessments for effects on health and environment to be carried out, before a PPP can be placed on the market and used. In 1992, the European Commission started a Community-wide review process for aU active substances used in PPPs within the EU. Based on scientific assessments, each applicant had to prove that a substance could be used safely regarding human health, the environment, ecotoxicology and residues in the food chain. This program will be completed by 2008. From the end of 2003, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) deals with risk assessment issues and the European Commission retains the risk... 

EES A. 2006. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) website. http /www.efsa.europa.eu EU. 2000. Communication from the Commission on the Precautionary Principle. Brussels, 2.02.2000, COM (2000) 1. http /ec.europa.eu/dgs/health consumer/library/pub/pub07 en.pdf EU. 2001. White Paper on the Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy, http //ec.europa.eu/consumers/ cons safe/prod safe/other EU/chem policy en.htm... 

The stmcmre-based, tiered TTC approach as outlined by Munro et al. (1996, 1999) is used by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) in a procedure for the evaluation of flavoring substances in food, including an acceptance of the general TTC of 1.5 pg/person/day, i.e., the US-FDA Threshold of Regulation (Section 4.13.1). The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) also uses this approach for evaluation of flavoring substances, except that the general TTC of 1.5 pg/person/day is not accepted (Larsen 2006). 

Similarly, in order to avoid any quantitative estimate, an MOE approach has been recommended by, e.g., JECFA (the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives) and EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority) in the assessment of compounds that are both genotoxic and carcinogenic by using a benchmark dose (BMD) approach to estimate the BMDLio (benchmark dose lower limit) representing the lower bound of a 95% confidence interval on the BMD corresponding to a 10% tumor incidence (see Section 6.4). 

EFSA. 2005. Draft opinion on a harmonized approach for risk assessment of compounds which are both genotoxic and carcinogenic. Request No EFSA-Q-2004-020, EFSA Scientific Committee, The European Food Safety Authority, 7 April 2005. Brussels EFSA. http /www.efsa.eu.int/en/... 

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), based in Parma, Italy, since 2005 is the keystone of EU risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. 

European Union member states European Food Safety Authority, European Union No ban. Issued opinion from advisory group. Recommended a notification to public of the potential health risks and proper preparation practices Alexander et al. (2004)... 

Recently, there has been an issue with the detection of 4-methylbenzophe-none (MBP) in breakfast cereal in Europe, leading to publicity concerning the presence of this photoinitiator in the food. Based on the close similarity between MBP and benzophenone, a photoinitiator for inks and coatings that are cured with UV light, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that short-term consumption of breakfast cereals containing ppm traces of MBP should not pose a risk to most people, but recommended that this substance undergo more detailed evaluation if it will continue to be used in food packaging. ... 

The general criteria for the use of food additives in the EU are described in Annex II of the Framework Directive 89/107/EEC. The authorization of a new food additive in the EU involves a two-step procedure a safety evaluation is completed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the food additive is included in the appropriate Directive by the Commission and the Commission adopts a specification of the purity criteria for the food additive. 

European Food Safety Authority. 2006. Opinion of the scientific panel on plant protection products and their residues on a request from EFSA on the final report of the FOCUS Working Group on Landscape and Mitigation Factors in Ecological Risk Assessment. EFSA J 437 1-30. http //www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa locale-1178620753812 home.htm (accessed December 28, 2007). 

Ms Valerie Rolland (during development of the public review draft of the document) Assistant Scientific Co-ordinator, Scientific Committee, European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy... 

Organization (WHO) recommends limits for the safe intake of chemical elements. The limit for Hg is 300 pg per week of which a maximum of 200 pg is Me-Hg [11]. In April 2004 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published new limits for Me-Hg. On the one hand, a Provisional Tolerable Weekly Intake (PTWI) of 1.6 pg kg-1 body weight is given on the other hand, a significantly lower intake limit of 0.7 pg kg-1 body weight per week from a previous evaluation by the United States National Research Council (USNRC) is established [12]. 

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