France, Germany Call For Scientific Advice Shake-up At Efsa

摘要

Two of the most powerful countries in the EU -France and Germany - are calling for major changes in the way scientific assessment is done at thernEuropean Food Safety Authority. They want to change the panel system and instead use a more collaborative approach, where national agencies would be involved in the risk assessments.rnValerie Baduel, from the French food safety agency AFSSA, and Andreas Hensel, head of the German Federal Institute for risk assessment (BfR), called for a different model for risk assessment at the management board meeting at the end of last month in Rome.