The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is inviting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on novel food products to receive advice on the requirements for applications to obtain authorization to market their innovations in the EU market.

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EFSA’s Call for Pre-Submission Advice for SMEs on Novel Food Applications Ends Soon

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is inviting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on novel food products to receive advice on the requirements for applications to obtain authorization to market their innovations in the EU market. As stated by EFSA, the initiative aims to support SMEs with no or limited experience by providing general pre-submission advice (GPSA) at two stages of their novel food development and application process: At the very early stage of developing the novel food, even before starting the studies that will be included in the application. At the latest stages of the application’s preparation, when most of the information that will be included in the application is already available to the SME. Selected SMEs will receive valuable advice from EFSA, from …

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EFSA Launches Colloquium to Discuss the Safety of Cultivated Meat and Microbial Proteins

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is launching a two-day scientific colloquium, Cell culture-derived foods, and food ingredients. It aims to gather views and insights from relevant experts and stakeholders on the safety of novel foods, such as cultivated meat and microbial dairy proteins. In the European Union, novel products and food additives receive pre-market authorization under several sectoral regulatory frameworks that require scientific advice from EFSA. Therefore, EFSA’s risk assessment methods and experience must keep up with technological advancements. Starting the discussion Before the event, EFSA shared in its newsroom key questions and answers from experts to start the discussions around these novel foods. Here we review and summarise some of them for vegconomist readers. Are these novel foods safe? Wolfgang Gelbmann, a senior scientific …

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