The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a concept paper that is intended to inform EFSA’s and the EU food safety system’s approach to risk communication. Building on an EFSA scientific report from 2021 that led to recommendations for the design and implementation of a future “EU General Plan for Risk Communication,” the concept paper focuses on areas where additional evidence needs to be generated to inform risk communication in the EU food safety system. This work is part of EFSA’s efforts to meet the EU’s Transparency Regulation and achieve the vision of the EFSA Strategy 2027 by maximizing the agency’s evidence base of social research.
The concept paper outlines the scope and objectives, future working areas requiring development, and opportunities to progress the four research topics that were established by EFSA’s prior work. The research topics are: