Last week the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) initiated a public consultation on its draft guidance.
Last week the European Food Safety Authority warned that neonicotinoid pesticides should not be used on crops attractive to honey bees.
The European Food Safety Authority started reviewing food health claims in 2006 and has rejected 80% of more than 900 proposed claims to date.
The European Food Safety Authority has rejected 80% of more than 900 proposed claims over the past several years because they are lacking strong evidence.
In 2010, the European Food Safety Authority published a report outlining analysis of 612 rice samples from the EU, finding average levels of just a few tens of parts per billion.
But a spokesman for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that while the organisation had concluded that fish could feel pain, in the EU, decapods were not classified as sentient species.
The science based view of this issue took a sharp turn in January when the European Food Safety Authority issued three studies raising questions about the potential role of neonics in this latest wave of bee deaths.
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published their opinion on a French study that found severe impacts on the health of rats fed with genetically engineered maize or exposed to a low dosage of herbicides.
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That's because they typically require studies that meet a long list of criteria, says Wolfgang Dekant, a toxicologist at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany and a member of a panel that reviewed BPA research a few years ago for the European Food Safety Authority.
The study was publicized widely throughout the world, but it was denounced by the European Union Food Safety Authority, rejected in a rare joint statement by the six French national scientific academies, and ridiculed by scores of scientists.
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