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Scientific Forum - "From Safe Food To Healthy Diets"

Brussels, November 20-21

Deadline for registration is 27 September 2007

EFSA is committed to excellence in science. Our remit covers some of the most cutting-edge topics that impact on the food we grow and eat. This two-day event gives EFSA the opportunity for a scientific debate and discussion with the scientific community, and other interested parties such as the media, consumers and industry on many of these issues which increasingly make headlines and have political, ethical and economic implications across Europe. Including presentations from some of Europe’s foremost experts in food and feed safety, the Forum will enable interaction between audiences and speakers.

Day 1 will focus on major challenges in food safety including risks from zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks, chemical risks, and a closer look at the link between diet, nutrition and health.

Day 2 offers a series of round table sessions on a range of diverse subjects developed to contextualize EFSA’s work within the daily cycle of farm to fork as well as looking at new and evolving issues in food safety. These include animal welfare and its impact on the food chain, legal and illegal colours in food and how consumer protection counts in pesticide risk analysis. A round table on risk communications will also look at food safety in the news, learning from the past and future challenges in reaching out in a meaningful way to all interested parties. (14 August 2007)

Programme

Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance chloridazon (16 August 2007)

Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance benthiavalicarb (13 August 2007)

Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance prothiaconazole (13 August 2007)

Call for new Management Board members launched

A call for expressions of interest has been launched for new members of EFSA's Management Board. Applications are invited for the positions of 7 out of 15 members of EFSA's Management Board which is the Authority's governing body. (1 August 2007)

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on the safety of Zeolite (sodium aluminosilicate, synthetic) for the reduction of risk of milk fever in dairy cows (1 August 2007)

Opinion

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Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance benthiavalicarb (1 August 2007)

Conclusion

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Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance prothiaconazole (1 August 2007)

Conclusion

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel PPR on the Final Report of the FOCUS Air Working Group on Pesticides in Air: Consideration for exposure assessment. (SANCO/10553/2006 draft 1 (13 July 2006)). (30 July 2007)

Opinion

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel AFC related to a 15th list of substances for food contact materials (30 July 2007)

Opinion

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EFSA provides guidance to applicants on health claims

Final Guidance Document published

Following public consultation, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today published its final guidance to applicants on the submission of health claims for authorisation. During the consultation of the draft document useful comments were received from stakeholders and Member States and all of them were considered by the NDA Panel . The guidance will help companies who want to submit health claims for authorisation. It addresses what they need to include in their application, in particular concerning the scientific data and evidence required to support claims. (26 July 2007)

Press Release

Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies on a request from the Commission related to scientific and technical guidance for the preparation and presentation of the application for authorisation of a health claim (26 July 2007)

Opinion

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Request of the European Commission (EC) to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for an initial scientific opinion on the risks arising from nanoscience and nanotechnologies on food and feed safety and the environment (26 July 2007)

Request letter

Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance Paecilomyces lilacinus (26 July 2007)

Conclusion

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Background Document A

Draft assessment report

Addendum

Background document B

Cover page

Comments on the draft assessment

Reporting table

PRAPeR export meeting report

Evaluation table

Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on the safety and efficacy of the enzyme preparation Ronozyme P5000 (CT) and Ronozyme P20000 (L) (6-phytase) as feed additive for ducks according to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 (26 July 2007)

Opinion

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Guidance Document of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the risk assessment of genetically modified plants containing stacked transformation events (25 July 2007)

Guidance document

Approaches to enhance EFSA's responsiveness to Urgent Questions (25 July 2007)

Advice

EFSA statement on the fate of recombinant DNA or proteins in the meat, milk or eggs of animals fed with GM feed (20 July 2007)

Statement

Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on the safety and efficacy of the enzyme preparation Safizym X (endo-1,4-beta-xylanase) as a feed additive for ducks in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 (20 July 2007)

Opinion

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms on an application (Reference EFSA-GMO-NL-2005-18) for the placing on the market of the glufosinate tolerant soybean A2704-12, for food and feed uses, import and processing under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Bayer CropScience (20 July 2007)

Opinion

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on the safety and efficacy of the product Bonvital, a preparation of Enterococcus faecium, as a feed additive for sows in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 (19 July 2007)

Opinion

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Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance spirodiclofen (19 July 2007)

Conclusion

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Conclusion regarding the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance spiromesifen (19 July 2007)

Conclusion

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Call for applications for an in-service training period at the European Food Safety Authority

Deadline for Applications 15/09/2007.

Press Release

18 July 2007

EFSA concludes review of new scientific data on potential risks to human health from certain hormone residues in beef

EFSA was asked by the European Commission (EC) to assess any new scientific evidence that emerged since the last risk assessment in 2002 relating to the use of certain natural and synthetic growth promoting hormones (GPH) in cattle. EFSA’s Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) concluded that there are no grounds to call for revision of previous risk assessments.

Press Release

Opinion of the Scientific Panel CONTAM related to hormone residues in bovine meat and meat products

Opinion

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel AFC related to an application on the use of ethyl lauroyl arginate as a food additive (16 July 2007)

Opinion

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel AFC on the food colour Red 2G (E128) based on a request from the Commission related to the re-evaluation of all permitted food additives (5 July 2007)

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