EFSA CONFERENCE DEBATES CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE ON SIMULTANEOUSLY GUARANTEEING NUTRITION AND FOOD SAFETY
November 1st, 2007
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
SOME five hundred scientists and other experts held a two-day meeting in Brussels this week at a Food Safety Summit to mark the fifth anniversary of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which organised the conference.
Its theme was "From Safe Foods to Healthy Diets".
The subjects ranged widely and sometimes controversially from nanotechnology to additives, microbiological risks, labelling, and food borne infections. Here are some key comments made during its proceedings.
"Few issues are as central to our ...
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