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Activities Encountered by European and Other International Authorities

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The impact of this chapter is to inform the reader of this book about current activities of international bodies to improve the methods used in exposure assessment and the knowledge and information database. In addition the reader shall be given insight into the regulatory work and decision procedures.

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    EFSA’s scientific process. A step-by-step guide. Available at: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/interactive_pages/scientificprocess/ScientificProcess

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    EFSA 2014. Discussion Paper Transformation to an ‘Open EFSA’ http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/corporate/doc/openefsadiscussionpaper14.pdf

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    Methods for evidence use in scientific assessments. Furthering impartiality, methodological rigour, transparency and responsiveness when using evidence. Available at: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/interactive_pages/prometheus/prometheus

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    EFSA Guidance and assessment approaches (https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/methodology/guidance)

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    How we work. Available at: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/about/howwework

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    EFSA’s Data collection and analysis networks https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/data/networks

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    EFSA stakeholder discussion group on food chemical occurrence data https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/engage/stakeholders

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    FAO/WHO Global Individual Food consumption data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT) http://www.fao.org/nutrition/assessment/food-consumption-database/en/

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    The FAO/WHO Chronic individual food consumption database - Summary statistics (CIFOCOss) http://www.who.int/foodsafety/databases/en/

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    EFSA’s calls for data https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/calls/data

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    EFSA’s data collection, standardisation and analysis https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/data

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    Submitting an application to EFSA: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/applications/about/submitting

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    EFSA’s calls for data https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/calls/data

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    PRIMo - Pesticide Residue Intake Model. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/applications/pesticides/tools

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    European Union reports on pesticide residues. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/publications/advanced-search/?sub_subject=70065

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    Acknowledgement: Without the participation and the dedication of the following team members the EIS-ChemRisks toolbox would not have been possible: Pertti (Bert) Hakkinen, Dieter Schwela, Yuri Bruinen de Bruin, Carlos del Pozo, Irene Biavetti, Athanasios Arvanitis, Giorgios Giannopoulos, Majlinda Lahaniatis, Stylianos Kephalopoulos and Dimitris Kotzias. Particular thanks are expressed to Takis Daskaleros (DG SANCO).

    Many thanks to the JRC colleagues from the European Chemicals Bureau (ECB), namely: Bert-Ove Lund, Jens Tørsløv and Frans M. Christensen.

    Special thanks for the continuously involved experts, namely: Jacqueline van Engelen (RIVM), Gerhard Heinemeyer (BfR), Anne Catherine Viso (InVS), Lea Frimann Hansen (DEPA), Leif Bengtsson (KEMI), Matti Jantunen (KTL) and Carlos Rodriguez (P&G).

    The following members of the IRAG sub-group have dedicated efforts on case studies carried out using the EIS-ChemRisks toolbox: Dirk van Aken [Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, the Netherlands], Peter Hammer Sørensen [Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA), Denmark], Matthias Honnacker [Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Germany], Janez Novak [Market Inspectorate, Slovenia], Corinne Mandin [Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), France], Konstantinos Zisis [Ministry of Development, Greece] and Chris Van der Cruyssen [Federal Public Service Economy, Belgium] with the coordination of Jürgen Vogelgesang (DG SANCO). We are grateful to all of them.

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Ahrens, A. et al. (2019). Activities Encountered by European and Other International Authorities. In: Heinemeyer, G., Jantunen, M., Hakkinen, P. (eds) The Practice of Consumer Exposure Assessment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96148-4_7

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