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rssA new concept is to ensure safety in the supply chain and life cycle of nanomaterials
07-02-2013
There is currently a need for better identification and assessment of potential hazards arising from nanomaterials for humans and their environment in the future. With this aim, the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) ...
The BfR is involved in a European research project for harmonised exposure estimation
15-11-2012
How much dioxin or acrylamide do we ingest from food on average? Are consumers in Portugal or Iceland exposed to the same amounts as consumers in Germany? Are the substance contents in foods similar and the risks therefore comparable across Europe? Answers to these questions form the basis ...
13th BfR Consumer Protection Forum on challenges in food and feed analysis in the face of the global flow of goods
04-07-2012
Trust is good, but reliable and regular controls are even better. Adopting this motto, Europe has succeeded in setting high standards in the area of food and feed safety. Good and notably legally secure monitoring of standards required by law is only possible, however, if reliable and, more ...
BfR conference on the state of knowledge about the health risks of nanosilver
01-03-2012
According to industry and trade sources, nanoscale silver is the nanomaterial most often used in products intended for consumers. However, consumers are frequently not told which products actually contain nanosilver. In Europe, nanosilver is predominantly used as an antimicrobial substance in ...
The BfR organised and international symposium on the subject "Mineral Oils in Food Packaging - Developments and Solution Strategies"
31-10-2011
On 22 and 23 September 2011, about 400 representatives from the worlds of science, business and society as well as politics and government institutions discussed how food packaging made of recycled paper could be made safer. Two years ago, mineral oil contents classified as dangerous to ...
Strain from the sprouts is identical to strain from the infected patients
14-06-2011
Scientists of the National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) have confirmed the results of the Land authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia: Raw sprouts contaminated with EHEC, which originated from the household of EHEC patients in ...
BfR research project on the intake of heavy metals and dioxins completed
14-01-2011
The final report of the research project "Foodborne exposure to environmental contaminants" (LExUKon) is now available. In this project scientists of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) have calculated, together with colleagues from the Research and Advisory Institute for ...
BfR and LGL develop test systems
10-12-2010
Experts deal with the development of analytical methods for the detection of allergenic substances in foods at a joint event of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL) which ends today in Berlin. The labelling of allergens on ...
BfR stakeholder conference explores the opportunities and limits of state risk prevention
04-12-2009
When are we sufficiently protected from danger? Does the state ensure that risks are kept to a minimum? The question about how far state risk prevention can go and the degree of safety that state measures can, may and must offer is raised not only in the field of consumer health protection. ...
BfR Symposium on Zoonoses and Food Safety
19-11-2009
Around 200 scientists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland came together at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin to discuss the current situation in the field of zoonoses, control strategies and prevention. Zoonosis control is dependent on close cooperation between ...
