Nov 20th, 2020
3 mins
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have published its Work Streams around Chemicals in Food. This comprises of a drafted joint position paper from EFSA and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) as a contribution to the ‘European Green Deal’ around the idea of ‘one substance – one assessment’.
This paper proposes solutions such as simplification, cost savings and improved regulatory predictability as a result of analysis of current situation. Key proposals are for a central coordinated mechanism with better distribution/co-ordination between agencies of tasks (including chemical mixtures) and subsequently access to all available data in the same structured format.
The ‘European Green Deal’ was published by the European Commission in December 2019 as a chemical’s strategy for sustainability. The Commission aims to simplify and strengthen legal framework and review how EU agencies and scientific bodes move towards the ‘one substance – one assessment’.
The EFSA carry out risk assessments and this includes substances deliberately added to food and feed, any chemical residues present in food and feed, packaging, consumption, distribution and any that may be present through contact with the environment.
Risk Managers take EFSA’s scientific advice into account with other factors when making decisions around the safety of substances for human and animal health and the environment.
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