EFSA Summarizes Emerging Risks Identification Activities During 2020
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released a report that summarizes its activities to identify emerging risks, communication about such risks, and work to improve emerging risk identification (ERI) approaches during 2020.
Involved in EFSA’s ERI procedure is the Emerging Risks Exchange Network (EREN), which was established in 2010 for information exchange and scientific cooperation between risk assessors in EU Member States and EFSA’s ERI on possible emerging risks for food and feed safety, as well as to enhance risk assessment practices. The Stakeholder Discussion Group on Emerging Risks (StaDG-ER), also part of the ERI procedure, began in 2011 to regularly engage with EFSA-registered stakeholder organizations on emerging food safety risks. EFSA’s scientific units, scientific panels, and the Scientific Committee also contribute knowledge to ERI.