Annual report on EFSA's food and feed safety crisis preparedness and response 2010

摘要

This report presents EFSA activities related to food and feed safety crisis preparedness and urgent responses. In 2010, one internal training exercise was organised to raise awareness amongst EFSA response personnel of the principles of crisis response in the context of urgent risk assessment. In the same period, EFSA received two urgent requests from the European Commission. The first was to provide a statement on the risks for public health related to the presence of chlormequat residues in table grapes originating from India. The second was the possible short-term risks for public and animal health in the European Union posed by possible contamination of the feed and food chain due to ash- fall from the cloud formed after the eruption of the Eyjafjallaj?kull volcano in Iceland. Both responses to the urgent requests were delivered within statutory timeframes as EFSA statements.