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EFSA publishes a BSE/TSE risk assessment of the use of bovine dried blood products as an ingredient for feeds destined for farmed fish
EFSA has assessed the BSE/TSE related risk of bovine dried blood compounds if added as a protein supplement to feeds for farmed fish, a practice currently banned in the EU. EFSA’s Scientific Panel on...
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EFSA provides comprehensive advice on pig welfare
EFSA has just issued the last in a series of three Scientific Opinions concerning the welfare of farmed pigs. The latest report focuses on the problem of tail-biting (a distressing form of abnormal...
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EFSA-ECDC annual report on animal infections transmissible to humans: Salmonella infections in humans in the EU down, Listeria infections up Campylobacter still most frequently reported animal infection transmissible to humans
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have launched their yearly joint Community report on infectious diseases transmissible from...
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EFSA adopts a scientific opinion on the animal welfare aspects of different methods of killing and skinning of seals
EFSA’s Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) Panel has adopted a scientific opinion on the killing and skinning seals. EFSA’s independent scientific experts have looked objectively at the best available...
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Update on EFSA’s evaluation of a study on food colours and behaviour
In September 2007 EFSA was asked to provide scientific advice to the European Commission and EU Member States on a study conducted by the University of Southampton and published in the scientific...
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Nutrient profiles: EFSA consults experts and assesses options
EFSA has just issued a summary report on its recent scientific colloquium on nutrient profiles, the conditions concerning the nutrient content of foods which will soon govern which foods are allowed...