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“The world has changed since EFSA’s inception and EFSA is changing with it,” said executive director, Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle.
“EFSA has re-structured internally both in support of its Science Strategy for 2012-2016 and to evolve with the risk assessment landscape that it has helped to define. These reforms will allow the Authority to be as flexible and reactive as possible to risk management needs while continuing to protect European consumers. EFSA will continue to shape the future of risk assessment through experience, flexibility and commitment, in particular to its core values of openness and transparency, scientific excellence, independence and responsiveness.”
The agency noted it had grown from 3o staff in 202 to more than 450 at its Parma, Italy, base, and that it had, “evaluated more than 3,000 health claims, providing the scientific basis to protect European consumers from potentially misleading labelling and advertising of food products.”
Other achievements included pooling more than 1500 scientific experts and published 2500 scientific outputs.
Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli said: "EFSA's credibility and scientific excellence is today being recognised on the world stage. Sound scientific data is crucial to good policy-making. EFSA has carried out important risk assessment work and I trust that it will build on its achievements of the last 10 years. Our vision is to continue ensuring that food has the highest standards of safety for our citizens."
