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News on food safety topics
Here you will find selected food safety notifications from the online portals of the food safety authorities of the EU Member States. The respective authors are responsible for the original texts of the machine-translated content. The links to the original texts can be found under each notification.
Latest news from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Olivér Várhelyi visits EFSA
On Thursday, 10 April, European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, visited the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma.
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Latest news from Germany (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, BfR)
Oursafefood: Coordinated Communication
The German network of communication experts in the field of food safety
The EU Transparency Regulation from 2019 calls for stronger coordination between experts with the aim of making risk communication even more coherent, precise and transparent. In this context a network consisting of national institutions from the area of food and feed safety has been established in Germany in 2024. Its structure, objectives and tasks are explained below.
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Episode 005 - Those believed dead live longer: After decades, foot-and-mouth disease is back on the doorstep
This year, foot-and-mouth disease, a dreaded animal disease that was thought to be a thing of the past on our continent, suddenly reappeared in Europe. Although it is harmless to humans, it is a death sentence for animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and goats. Our expert Fritz Schmoll explains why this is the case in the 5th episode of the AGES podcast “Courage to take risks”.
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About oursafefood.de
The information platform oursafefood.de is operated by the German EFSA Focal Point, the contact point of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). It provides a wide range of information on topics relating to food and feed safety across Europe.
