This is how Europe operates when it comes to food safety
BfR publishes EU Food Safety Almanac
The state structures of food and feed safety in 30 European states are presented in the EU food safety Almanac published by the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). "Smooth cooperation between the state players in Europe strengthens food safety. If the stakeholders and structures in the European countries are known to all those concerned, then we will be able to work together even more effectively and avoid the duplication of work", says Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel. As President of BfR and the German member of the Advisory Forum of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), he is responsible both on the national and European level for the risk assessment of food and feed.
The short, transparent country profiles in the brochure present the main public authorities and expert committees in the 27 Member States and the associated countries Iceland, Norway and Switzerland which are involved in food safety. It also indicates their functions in the state legal system. The BfR EU Food Safety Almanac contains, for instance, information on which public authorities in each of the 30 states are responsible for the assessment of pesticides, health claims or zoonoses, which ministries are responsible in the Member States for the various aspects of management, how risks are communicated and the extent to which risk assessment and risk management are separated from each other institutionally.
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