Food Safety: more transparent scientific studies

Today the Commission is responding to the concerns expressed by citizens in a successful European Citizens' Initiative, with a proposal to improve the transparency of scientific studies in the food safety area.

The proposal, drawing also on the Commission's Fitness Check of the General Food Law, which dates back from 2002, will:

• Give citizens greater access to information submitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)on approvals concerning the agri-food chain;
• provide the possibility for additional studies to be requested by the Commission and;
• will involve Member States' scientists more closely in approval procedures.

For more information:

• Transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain