Open AccessOutcome of the public consultation on the draft guidance on the use of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern approach in food safety assessment
Author(s) -
Benford Diane,
GundertRemy Ursula,
E N Kass George,
Reilly Linda,
Schlatter Josef R,
Wallace Heather M,
Younes Maged
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
efsa supporting publications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2397-8325
DOI - 10.2903/sp.efsa.2019.en-1661
Subject(s) - public consultation , food safety , political science , advisory committee , public relations , medicine , public administration , law , pathology
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the Guidance on the use of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern approach in food safety assessment. The draft guidance was prepared by a dedicated working group of the Scientific Committee and endorsed by the Scientific Committee for public consultation at its plenary meeting of 17th September 2018. The public consultation for this document was open from 12th November 2018 to 10th January 2019. EFSA received 101 comments from 23 interested parties in addition to three letters. EFSA’s Scientific Committee wishes to thank all stakeholders for their contributions. This report presents statistics on the comments received and provides a summarised description of how the comments were addressed in the finalisation of the document. The valuable and detailed comments from the stakeholders were taken into account by the Scientific Committee to prepare an updated version of the guidance. The opinion was discussed and adopted at the Scientific Committee plenary meeting on 24 April 2019 and is published in the EFSA Journal