European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is a European Union (EU) agency that acts independent of the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, as well as the Member States. It was legally established in 2002 under the General Food Law – Regulation 178/2002, which created a food safety system on the EU level, including risk assessment and risk management. The EFSA takes care of the former task by conducting scientific research and communicating its findings to the public.

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On 28th February 2018 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)[1] confirmed that neonicotinoids – a class of pesticides — represent a risk to wild bees, bumble bees, and honeybees because their residues are found in bee pollen and nectar, dust drift during the sowing and application of the treated seeds, and are absorbed into water….