EFSA LAUNCHES REVIEW OF EMERGING RISK ALERTS
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is reviewing how it discovers and combats emerging food health risks. The agency is also investigating building relationships with outside organisations providing risk alerts, to be quickly filtered by EFSA scientists. If they say an alert causes concern, more thorough assessments would be carried out.
* http://www.efsa.europa.eu/science/sc_commitee/sc_opinions/1562/sc_op_ej375_emrisk_en1.pdf
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THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is reviewing how it discovers and combats emerging food health risks. The agency is also investigating building relationships with outside organisations providing risk alerts, to be quickly filtered by EFSA scientists. If they say an alert causes concern, more thorough assessments would be carried out.
* http://www.efsa.europa.eu/science/sc_commitee/sc_opinions/1562/sc_op_ej375_emrisk_en1.pdf
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