PRIVATE BODIES TO HELP EFSA CATCH EMERGING FOOD RISKS
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) may work with private food health alert services, after reviewing how it discovers and combats emerging risks. In an assessment paper, EFSA admitted it "will need to devote new internal resources for the work with emerging risks", which have recently ranged from fresh foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks, to dioxin contamination and new diseases such as SARS. But with expanded dedicated resources, even EFSA cannot detect every potential food-related threat to human and animal health, so an official ...
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