EFSA IN BUSINESS

BY Alan OsbornThe European Food Safety Authority has begun active operations following appointments to its scientific committee and to the eight specialist panels. Mr Geoffrey Podger, executive director of EFSA and former head of Britain's food safety agency, said EFSA had recruited the best available scientists working on the most important food safety issues "so that significant improvements can be made to the safety of food in the European Union - that process begins now."There are three British experts on the 14-member scientific panel: Professor Susan ...


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