Consumer Pressure
- Drive for safe and wholesome foods
- Acceptance of environmental objectives
- Cynical of scientific opinion
EU/UK Government
- Trends towards regulation at the EU level
- Strengthening of the precautionary approach
- Coordination of emergency responses
- Organise symposia, conferences and meetings on research issues
- Exchange information pertaining to developments in research, food safety, and applied nutrition
- Establish joint research programs
- Promote university exchanges by inviting scholars of the partner institution for short-term lectures and longer study periods
- Food safety: foodborne illness
- Food safety: TSEs (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies)
- Food safety: Chemical and radiological risks
- Eating for health
- Choice: Novel foods and food processes -Rigorous safety assessment -Authenticity -Food Labelling
- Food additives
- Risk assessment
- Phytoestrogens in the diet
- Food intolerance
- Mechanisms of food chemical toxicology
- Mixtures – toxicology and exposure
- Safety of novel foods
- Safety assessment of novel foods
- Independent scientific advice on food safety issues to underpin policy development and legislation related to the food chain
- Science Committees: -Food additives, flavourings, processing and contact
- materials -Dietetic products, nutrition and allergies
- Science Programmes (7th Framework) -Nutrition and Diet -Innovative production technologies -Improved quality and safety
