Public consultation on the draft scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of aflatoxins in food

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EFSA's Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) has launched an open consultation on the draft scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of aflatoxins in food. This document presents estimations of human dietary exposure to aflatoxins and an assessment of human health risks related to dietary exposure to aflatoxins.

Interested parties are invited to submit written comments by 15 November 2019.

Please use the electronic template provided:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/AFLATOXINSPC2019 to submit comments and refer to the line and page numbers. To submit additional data to support your comments or files, there is an upload function available in the tool (for a maximum size of 1Mb file).
Otherwise you can also contact specific unit’s functional mailbox: biocontam [at] efsa.europa.eu (biocontam[at]efsa[dot]europa[dot]eu)

Please note that comments will not be considered if they:

  • are submitted after the closing date of the consultation
  • are presented in any form other than what is provided for in the instructions and template
  • are not related to the contents of the document
  • contain complaints against institutions, personal accusations, irrelevant or offensive statements or material
  • are related to policy or risk management aspects, which are out of the scope of EFSA's activity.

EFSA will assess all comments which are submitted in line with the criteria above. The comments will be further considered by the relevant EFSA Panel and taken into consideration if found to be relevant. Due to time constraints, EFSA cannot use additional occurrence data submitted during the public consultation for the dietary exposure assessment in this risk assessment. However, occurrence data submitted in SSD format will be stored and used for future risk assessments.

Copyright-cleared contributions

Persons or organizations participating in a Public Consultation of EFSA are responsible for ensuring that they hold all the rights necessary for their submissions and consequent publication by EFSA. Comments should inter alia be copyright cleared by taking into account EFSA’s transparency policy and practice to publish all submissions. In case the submission reproduces third-party content in the form of charts, graphs or images, the required prior permissions of the right holder(s) should have been obtained by the PC respondent

Publication of contributions

Contributions will be published (as part of an EFSA report published together with the final opinion) and may be re-used by EFSA in a different context. It should be noted that contributions submitted by individuals in a personal capacity will be published as such, indicating the author’s first and family name, unless a substantial justification for protection is provided by the respondent. Contributions submitted on behalf of an organisation are also made publicly available and attributed to the organization in question.