EFSA European Food Safety Authority

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EFSAEuropean Food Safety Authority

• PROGRESS REPORT
• Management Board
• 23 January 2007
• Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle

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SCIENCE Blue Tongue

• Mandate for epidemiological analysis
• 2 components
• Regular update continued through 21 December and
  resumed 8 January
• Global epidemiological analysis 15 January
  timeline for completing data acquisition and
  exchange
• To ensure adequate financial support EFSA
  launched tender that was finalised end December
  2006 with 4 national research institutes in BE,
  DE, FR and NL.

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Scientific Committee

• Meeting January 2007
• Meeting held with network for EU food consumption
  database managers to complete EFSAs database on
  food consumption
• Started 2 new ad-hoc WGs
• to provide advise on system for internal and
  external review of the quality of EFSAs work
• responsiveness to urgent issues
• EFSA launched a public consultation in order to
  seek public comments on the use of Qualified
  Presumption of Safety (QPS) as a safety
  assessment tool for microorganisms added to food
  and feed.

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Risk assessment

• AHAW Opinions adopted on rabies and brucellosis
  
• CONTAM 8 WG meetings on aflatoxins in food,
  PFOS, marine biotoxins, carry-over of
  coccidiostats in non-target animal feed
  undesirable substances in animal feed subsections
  natural plant products and POPs
• FEEDAP FEEDAP participated in the 19 December WG
  of the Standing Committee aiming at establishing
  new guidelines for the assessment of additives
  for use in animal nutrition on Commissions
  invitation
• NDA two WG meetings held, one on population
  reference intakes and another one on claims. NDA
  received four new requests for scientific
  opinions, three of them concerning novel food
  applications and one concerning allergies
• PPR 2 adoptions foreseen in January on the
  revision of Annexes II and III of the Directive
  91/414, sections Toxicology and Fate

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External Relations

• Visit to Berlin 18/19 January
• Visit of BEUC
• EFSA received a delegation from the Japanese Food
  Safety Commission
• Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety opening

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• Communications
• Media relations (four press releases in
  December/January)
• Publication of 2nd Community report on Zoonoses
  and press release Dec 14 attracted strong media
  and public attention
• 25,649 downloads of report, 821 downloads of PR
  to date
• Supplier for redesign of EFSA logo selected
• Web redesign continues
• Bluetongue bulletin updated online

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HR

• Total staff number end Q4 229
• - 55,80 Science
• Number of staff recruited Q4 27
• Number of nationalities 19
• Female 153 (66.81) Male 76 (33.19)