The Food Safety Authority of Ireland represents Ireland on food safety issues in Europe.
⚠ Tá leagan Gaeilge den leathanach seo ar fáil anseo.
The Authority has regular contact with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The FSAI consults on and assists in the development of well founded and effective European food law, taking into account the principles of better regulation.
European and national level activities are co-ordinated by EFSA by means of close co-operation through EFSA’s Advisory Forum, National Focal Point and Scientific Committees, Panels and Networks. This structure allows Member States and EFSA to work together to exchange scientific information and data, co-ordinate work programmes, pool resources and co-operate on joint projects.
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EFSA Grants and Procurement
EFSA regularly awards grants or subsidies for projects and activities that contribute to EFSA’s mission in the areas of data collection, preparatory work for scientific opinions, other scientific and technical assistance. Further information on EFSA Grants and EFSA Procurement.
A Call for Tenders EFSA/2024/OP/0008 on the "Develop and conduct training courses on Expert Knowledge Elicitation (EKE)" has been published.
This call for proposals aims to continue and extend the activity on training EKE methodologies, introducing the current implementation in EFSA’s risk assessments, including Behavioural aggregation (e.g., Sheffield), Cooke’s, Delphi methods and the Semi- formal protocol.
Budget: maximum € 400,000 for a framework contract of four years.
Deadline for receipt of tenders: 29 October 2024, 14:30 (CET).
Technical meeting on applications for food enzymes and New FEIM web tool
EFSA is organising in Parma a Technical meeting on applications for food enzymes on 24-25 October 2024. This event will focus on common issues that lead to non-favourable risk assessment outputs. In addition, it will introduce a new Food Enzyme Intake Model (FEIM) web tool. The event aims to discuss food enzyme applications, focusing on common issues that lead to non-favourable risk assessment outputs. It will address procedural aspects specific to food enzyme dossiers under the various practical arrangements implementing the Transparency Regulation (EU) 2019/138 and illustrates how confidentiality claims are assessed.
BfR World Food Safety Almanac
The online BfR World Food Safety Almanac provides an overview of the administrative structures of various countries in food and feed safety. It is well structured database that enables effective collaboration between organisations working in the field of food safety. Currently, there are profiles from 37 countries in the online World Food Safety Almanac.
EFSA newsletters
EFSA highlights is a free weekly e-newsletter featuring what’s new on the EFSA website.
EFSA's Understanding Science Video Clips
Understanding Science is EFSA’s scientific white board video series in which EFSA staff explain scientific concepts.