EFSA director: 'We are not there to please everybody'

摘要

Catherine Geslain-Laneelle recently started her second five-year mandate as executive director of the European Food Safety Authority, better known as EFSA. Her main concern for the coming years is to maintain and improve the scientific expertise of EFSA in an environment of continuous pressure on feed and food safety budgets in member states. Somewhat hidden away in Parma, Italy and outside the focal point of the international press the European Food Safety Authority, established in 2002, is the mostimportant body for feed and food safety in the European Union. Since 1 July 2006 Catherine Geslain-Laneelle has been appointed as executive director and this year she was mandated for another five year period. EFSA closely cooperates with national riskassessment bodies and as such Geslain-Laneelle travels to the individual EU-member states to foster the cooperation between EFSA and national risk assessment bodies, laboratories and universities.