NIA Comments on EFSA Opinion

Released on Friday 13th March 2009

This week’s issue of EU Food Law weekly looks in detail at the Scientific Opinion on ‘The Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed Safety’  published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on the 5th March 2009.

The article summarises some of the main findings in the EFSA Opinion and quotes stakeholder representatives, who were interviewed to give their specific opinion on these findings; the interviewees include representatives from the CIAA (Confederation of the European Food and Drink Industries), BEUC (the European consumer organisation), Euro Coop (the European consumer co-operative organisation), the Green in the EU Parliament, and the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA).

Together with the CIAA, BEUC and the Greens in the EU Parliament, the NIA welcomes much of the EFSA opinion, but ‘fundamentally disagrees with EFSA in its conclusions that “[...] additional endpoints not routinely addressed may need to be considered in addition to traditional endpoints.”'

Registered NIA members can download the complete EU Food Law weekly issue No. 384 (13th March 2009) from the ‘Members only’-area on the NIA website (by following the link to ‘Restricted Documents & Publications’).

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EFSA publishes scientific opinion on the ‘Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed Safety’

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a final opinion on nanotechnologies in food and feed; entitled ‘The Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed Safety’ (Scientific Opinion of the Scientific Committee on a request from the European Commission on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed Safety. (5th March 2009)
 
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In a joint effort, the Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries in the EU (CIAA) and the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) developed and provided comments to the ‘Draft Opinion of the Scientific Committee on the Potential Risks Arising from Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies on Food and Feed Safety’, published for public consultation by the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) on the 17th October 2008. (1st December 2008)

 

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