Wednesday, 08 December 2010 15:42

EFSA is searching for scientists for external review of EFSA output

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a call to expand the reserve list of the External Review Working Group. Committed to the continuous enhancement of its scientific work, the European Food Safety Authority will organise the second external review of the quality of its scientific outputs.

In order to benefit from an external perspective on its scientific work, EFSA has launched a call to extend the list of experts who have not been involved in the development of its scientific outputs during the last two years and would be willing to participate in this evaluation. The experts will examine in particular the quality of practices used for collecting, evaluating and describing the scientific data. They will assess whether conclusions and recommendations made in the outputs were adequately supported by scientific evidence and how any uncertainties were addressed. The Working Group will cover the following areas of activity: chemical risk assessment; nutrition and novel foods; biological risk assessment and zoonoses data collection; animal health and welfare; plant health; GMOs; risk assessment methodologies and emerging risks.

The final deadline for submitting an application to be included in this list of external experts is 15 December 2010.


Further information: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/