Feed safety platform

The network Feedsafety aims to gather institutes and stakeholders working to the use, development and validation of analytical methods for the feed sectors.
This platform was created in 2006 by a joint collaboration between CRA-W, RIKILT and EC-JRC-IRMM to promote the advances in the feed analysis.


Feed safety: Animal by-products : Official opinions 

The European Food Safety Agency is the major European organization for assessing feed and food safety. The BIOHAZ panel covers the area of BSE among others:

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/panels/biohaz.htm

Major relevant risk assessments in the area of BSE diseases are:

Scientific Opinion on the revision of the quantitative risk assessment (QRA) of the BSE risk posed by processed animal proteins (PAPs; 2011): http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1947.htm

Joint Scientific Opinion on any possible epidemiological or molecular association between TSEs in animals and humans (2011): http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1945.htm

 

General website of the EFSA: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en.html

 

Updated february 2011