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The [[European Food Safety Authority]] (EFSA) describes itself as: | The [[European Food Safety Authority]] (EFSA) describes itself as: | ||
| − | :the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. In close collaboration with national authorities and in open consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on existing and emerging risks.<ref>[http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_home.htm European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)], EFSA website, accessed | + | :the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. In close collaboration with national authorities and in open consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on existing and emerging risks.<ref>EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_home.htm European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)], EFSA website, accessed 02 July 2009.</ref> |
==GMO Panel== | ==GMO Panel== | ||
The GMO Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) assesses new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for approval in Europe and reports to the European Commission, which then submits its decision to the European Council. In the event that the Council cannot reach a qualified majority for or against authorisation, the matter is sent back to the Commission, which is free to authorise the GMO based on a special regulatory procedure called comitology. | The GMO Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) assesses new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for approval in Europe and reports to the European Commission, which then submits its decision to the European Council. In the event that the Council cannot reach a qualified majority for or against authorisation, the matter is sent back to the Commission, which is free to authorise the GMO based on a special regulatory procedure called comitology. | ||
| − | The EFSA has never given a negative opinion on a GMO put forward for approval, whatever the scientific concerns about its safety.<ref>[http://www.euractiv.com/en/environment/commission-hesitant-approve-gm-crops/article-172209 Commission hesitant to approve more GM crops], | + | The EFSA has never given a negative opinion on a GMO put forward for approval, whatever the scientific concerns about its safety.<ref>EurActiv, "[http://www.euractiv.com/en/environment/commission-hesitant-approve-gm-crops/article-172209 Commission hesitant to approve more GM crops]," 08 May 2008, accessed 02 July 2009.</ref> In July 2009 it gave a positive opinion even on Monsanto's GM maize MON810, which is banned for health and environmental reasons in six EU Member States as allowed under EU law.<ref>FoEE, "[http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2009/Jun30_EFSA_back_in_bed_with_GMO.html EFSA back in bed with GMO industry: MON810 opinion shown to Monsanto but not to public]," Friends of the Earth Press Release, 30 June 2009, accessed 02 July 2009.</ref> |
===Criticism of GMO Panel=== | ===Criticism of GMO Panel=== | ||
Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] is an internationally renowned scientist who conducted groundbreaking research into the safety of GM potatoes and was fired and gagged when he found problems and spoke about them on British television. In an email to GMWatch (dated 10 August 2008) on the tenth anniversary of his 15 seconds of TV fame, he wrote of GM food safety and the EFSA's GMO Panel: | Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] is an internationally renowned scientist who conducted groundbreaking research into the safety of GM potatoes and was fired and gagged when he found problems and spoke about them on British television. In an email to GMWatch (dated 10 August 2008) on the tenth anniversary of his 15 seconds of TV fame, he wrote of GM food safety and the EFSA's GMO Panel: | ||
:On this anniversary I have to admit that, unfortunately, not much has changed since 1998. In one of the few sentences I said in my broadcast ten years ago, I asked for a credible GM testing protocol to be established that would be acceptable to the majority of scientists and to people in general. 10 years on we still haven't got one. Instead, in Europe we have an unelected EFSA GMO Panel with no clear responsibility to European consumers, which invariably underwrites the safety of whatever product the GM biotech industry is pushing onto us. | :On this anniversary I have to admit that, unfortunately, not much has changed since 1998. In one of the few sentences I said in my broadcast ten years ago, I asked for a credible GM testing protocol to be established that would be acceptable to the majority of scientists and to people in general. 10 years on we still haven't got one. Instead, in Europe we have an unelected EFSA GMO Panel with no clear responsibility to European consumers, which invariably underwrites the safety of whatever product the GM biotech industry is pushing onto us. | ||
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| + | ===Monsanto's GM maize in EU=== | ||
| + | In 2004, EFSA approved feed and food use of Monsanto's GM Roundup-ready maize NK603 in 2004, and its cultivation in the EU in 2009. | ||
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| + | French scientist [[Gilles-Eric Séralini]]'s study on rats being fed with NK603 showed that the rats tested with Roundup died earlier than their control group, developing severe tumours and kidney and liver pathologies. The rats only fed with the GM maize also developed tumours. EFSA is criticized for having based its assessment on a narrow range of studies that tested rats for a short period of only 90 days. Séralini pointed out that in his research most of the tumours among the rats he studied only appeared after the first year. | ||
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| + | According to CEO, more than half of the GMO panel experts who signed the approval for this GM maize had links with industry resulting in conflicts of interest, as defined by the [[OECD]].<ref>Corporate Europe Observatory, "[http://corporateeurope.org/news/study-monsantos-gm-maize-intensifies-concerns-about-efsas-reliability-monsanto-strikes-back-pr Study on Monsanto's GM maize intensifies concerns about EFSA's reliability – Monsanto strikes back with PR offensive]," 21 September 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.</ref> | ||
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| + | ===GMO Panel members=== | ||
| + | :[[Joe Perry]], Chair | ||
| + | :[[Patrick du Jardin]], Vice-chair | ||
| + | :[[Gijs Kleter]], Vice-chair | ||
| + | :[[Salvatore Arpaia]] | ||
| + | :[[Andrew Nicholas Edmund Birch]] | ||
| + | :[[Andrew Chesson]] | ||
| + | :[[Achim Gathmann]] | ||
| + | :[[Jürgen Gropp]] | ||
| + | :[[Lieve Herman]] | ||
| + | :[[Hilde-Gunn Hoen-Sorteberg]] | ||
| + | :[[Huw Jones]] | ||
| + | :[[Jozsef Kiss]] | ||
| + | :[[Pagona Lagiou]] | ||
| + | :[[Martinus Lovik]] | ||
| + | :[[Antoine Messéan]] | ||
| + | :[[Hanspeter Naegeli]] | ||
| + | :[[Kaare M. Nielsen]] | ||
| + | :[[Jaroslava Ovesna]] | ||
| + | :[[Nils Rostoks]] | ||
| + | :[[Christoph Tebbe]]<ref>EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/gmo/gmomembers.htm Members of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)], accessed 04 October 2012.</ref> | ||
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| + | ====Former GMO Panel members==== | ||
| + | [[Harry Kuiper]] (Chair), [[Sirpa Kärenlampi]] (Vice-Chair), [[Hans Christer Andersson]], [[Detlef Bartsch]], [[Josep Casacuberta]], [[Howard Davies]], [[Gerhard Flachowsky]], [[Annette Poeting]], [[Jeremy Sweet]], [[Atte Johannes von Wright]], [[Jean-Michel Wal]] | ||
==Conflicts of interest on EFSA's management board== | ==Conflicts of interest on EFSA's management board== | ||
| − | In March 2011 Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) highlighted in a report that at least four members of EFSA’s management board are employed by or otherwise linked with food industry lobby groups and other commercial interests, a situation that creates conflicts of interest. These board members are: [[Matthias Horst]] (director general of the German food industry lobby [[BVE]]), [[Milan Kováč]] (director of [[International Life Sciences Institute]] Europe), [[Jiří Ruprich]] ([[Danone]] Institute) and [[Piet Vanthemsche]] (farmers’ lobby [[COPA]] and [[Agri Investment Fund]]).<ref>Corporate Europe Observatory, [http://www.corporateeurope.org/content/2011/02/efsa-conflicts-interest-board Serial conflicts of interest on EFSA’s management board], 23 February 2011, | + | In March 2011 Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) highlighted in a report that at least four members of EFSA’s management board are employed by or otherwise linked with food industry lobby groups and other commercial interests, a situation that creates conflicts of interest. These board members are: [[Matthias Horst]] (director general of the German food industry lobby [[BVE]]), [[Milan Kováč]] (director of [[International Life Sciences Institute]] Europe), [[Jiří Ruprich]] ([[Danone]] Institute) and [[Piet Vanthemsche]] (farmers’ lobby [[COPA]] and [[Agri Investment Fund]]).<ref>Corporate Europe Observatory, "[http://www.corporateeurope.org/content/2011/02/efsa-conflicts-interest-board Serial conflicts of interest on EFSA’s management board]," 23 February 2011, accessed 16 Mar 2011. (Focuses on links with the food and feed industry.)</ref><ref>Corporate Europe Observatory, "[http://corporateeurope.org/publications/exposed-conflicts-interest-among-efsa-experts-food-additives Exposed: conflicts of interest among EFSA’s experts on food additives]," 15 June 2011, accessed 04 October 2012. (Focuses on links with companies that make food additives.)</ref> |
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| + | ===Resignation of Diána Bánáti=== | ||
| + | Diána Bánáti was appointed member of the EFSA Management Board in June 2006, re-appointed for a second term in 2010 with a 4-year mandate, and elected Chair of the Management Board in October 2010.<ref>EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/faqs/faqresignationdianabanati.htm FAQ on the resignation of Diana Banati as member and Chair of EFSA´s Management Board], accessed 04 October 2012.</ref> She resigned from EFSA on 08 May 2012 by Diána Bánáti of her decision to take up a professional position at the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), a body which acts on behalf of numerous food and biotech multinationals, including [[Danone]], [[Kraft Foods]], [[Monsanto]], [[Nestle]] and [[Procter & Gamble]].<ref>Peter, Laurence, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18007004 Euro MPs criticise managers of EU agencies]," BBC News 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.</ref> | ||
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| + | A report by the parliament's budget committee, issued before Ms Banati's resignation, raised questions about her links with ILSI, going back to 2010, that said she had "failed, in 2010, to declare her membership of the Board of Directors of the ILSI". It called the EFSA board's scrutiny of its members' declarations of interest "insufficiently rigorous and detailed".<ref>Ibid.</ref> | ||
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| + | The EFSA insisted that Hungarian Professor Bánáti has had no influence or control over the organisation’s decision on food or crop safety issues. EFSA has been criticised to have allowed her remain in her EFSA position for so long, despite the fact that it has been known for a long time that she had connections to the GM industry and the wider food industry through ILSI. | ||
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| + | Green MEP [[José Bové]] stated that the conflict of interest in her role with ILSI made her position as EFSA chair completely "inappropriate and untenable".<ref>Poulter, Sean, "[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142150/EU-watchdog-forced-links-Frankenstein-food-firms.html EU watchdog forced out over links to 'Frankenstein food' firms]," ''Mail Online'' 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.</ref> | ||
| − | + | ILSI denies being an industry lobbying body. It describes itself as a "non-profit, worldwide organisation whose mission is to provide science that improves public health and well-being."<ref>Ibid.</ref> | |
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| − | + | ===Management Board members=== | |
| − | + | :[[Sue Davies]] (Vice-Chair) | |
| − | + | :[[Piergiuseppe Facelli]] (Vice-Chair) | |
| − | + | :[[Valérie Baduel]] | |
| − | + | :[[Manuel Barreto Dias]] | |
| − | + | :[[Marianne Elvander]] | |
| − | + | :[[Jaana Husu-Kallio]] | |
| − | + | :[[Milan Kováč]] | |
| − | + | :[[Stella Michaelidou-Canna]] | |
| − | + | :[[Jan Mousing]] | |
| − | + | :[[Radu Roatiş Cheţan]] | |
| − | + | :[[Jiří Ruprich]] | |
| − | + | :[[Pieter Vanthemsche]] | |
| − | + | :[[Tadeusz M. Wijaszka]] | |
| − | + | :[[Paola Testori Coggi]] | |
| − | + | :[[Ladislav Miko]]<ref>EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/mb/mbmembers.htm Management Board members]], accessed 04 October 2012.</ref> | |
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==Affiliations== | ==Affiliations== | ||
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:43121 Parma | :43121 Parma | ||
:ITALY | :ITALY | ||
| − | :Phone:+39 0521 036111 | + | |
| − | :Fax: +39 0521 036110 | + | :Phone: |
| − | :Website: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/ | + | :+39 0521 036111 |
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| + | :Fax: | ||
| + | :+39 0521 036110 | ||
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| + | :Website: | ||
| + | :http://www.efsa.europa.eu/ | ||
==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
| − | *Corporate Europe Observatory | + | *Corporate Europe Observatory, "[http://www.corporateeurope.org/content/2011/02/efsa-conflicts-interest-board Serial conflicts of interest on EFSA’s management board]," 23 February 2011, accessed 16 Mar 2011. |
| − | + | *Corporate Europe Observatory, "[http://corporateeurope.org/news/study-monsantos-gm-maize-intensifies-concerns-about-efsas-reliability-monsanto-strikes-back-pr Study on Monsanto's GM maize intensifies concerns about EFSA's reliability – Monsanto strikes back with PR offensive]," 21 September 2012, accessed 04 October 2012. | |
| − | *Corporate Europe Observatory | + | *Earth Open Source, "[http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/File:Eu_pesticidefoodsafety.pdf Europe's Pesticide and Food Safety Regulators - Who Do They Work For?]" April 2011, accessed 04 October 2012. |
| − | + | :*EFSA, [http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/File:EFSALetter5694917_Response_to_Earth_Open_Source.pdf Response to Earth Open Source report, Europe's Pesticide and Food Safety Regulators - Who Do They Work For?] 14 April 2011, accessed 04 October 2012. | |
| − | *Earth Open Source | + | ::*Earth Open Source, [http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/File:ReplytoletterEFSA.pdf Reply to letter from Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, executive director of EFSA, regarding our report: Europe’s pesticide and food safety regulators: Who do they work for?] 20 April 2012, accessed 04 October 2012. |
| − | : | + | :::*SETAC, [http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/File:SETAC-EOS_response28Apr2011.pdf Response to Earth Open Source report, Europe's Pesticide and Food Safety Regulators - Who Do They Work For?] 28 April 2011, accessed 04 October 2012. |
| − | :: | + | *EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_home.htm European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)], EFSA website, accessed 02 July 2009. |
| − | + | *EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/faqs/faqresignationdianabanati.htm FAQ on the resignation of Diana Banati as member and Chair of EFSA´s Management Board], accessed 04 October 2012. | |
| − | ::: | + | *EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/mb/mbmembers.htm Management Board members]], accessed 04 October 2012. |
| − | * | + | *EFSA, [http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/gmo/gmomembers.htm Members of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)], accessed 04 October 2012. |
| − | + | *EurActiv, "[http://www.euractiv.com/en/environment/commission-hesitant-approve-gm-crops/article-172209 Commission hesitant to approve more GM crops]," 08 May 2008, accessed 02 July 2009. | |
| + | *FoEE, "[http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2009/Jun30_EFSA_back_in_bed_with_GMO.html EFSA back in bed with GMO industry: MON810 opinion shown to Monsanto but not to public]," Friends of the Earth Press Release, 30 June 2009, accessed 02 July 2009. | ||
| + | *Peter, Laurence, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18007004 Euro MPs criticise managers of EU agencies]," BBC News 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012. | ||
| + | *Poulter, Sean, "[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142150/EU-watchdog-forced-links-Frankenstein-food-firms.html EU watchdog forced out over links to 'Frankenstein food' firms]," ''Mail Online'' 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012. | ||
| + | *TestBiotech, "[http://www.testbiotech.org/en/node/426 EFSA: a playing field for biotech industry]," 19 November 2010, accessed 04 October 2012. | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
| − | [[Category:GM]][[Category:Politicians and Regulators (GM)]][[Category:Foodspin Government Agencies]] | + | [[Category:GM]] |
| + | [[Category:Politicians and Regulators (GM)]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Foodspin Government Agencies]] | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 4 October 2012
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) describes itself as:
- the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. In close collaboration with national authorities and in open consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on existing and emerging risks.[1]
Contents
GMO Panel
The GMO Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) assesses new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for approval in Europe and reports to the European Commission, which then submits its decision to the European Council. In the event that the Council cannot reach a qualified majority for or against authorisation, the matter is sent back to the Commission, which is free to authorise the GMO based on a special regulatory procedure called comitology.
The EFSA has never given a negative opinion on a GMO put forward for approval, whatever the scientific concerns about its safety.[2] In July 2009 it gave a positive opinion even on Monsanto's GM maize MON810, which is banned for health and environmental reasons in six EU Member States as allowed under EU law.[3]
Criticism of GMO Panel
Dr Arpad Pusztai is an internationally renowned scientist who conducted groundbreaking research into the safety of GM potatoes and was fired and gagged when he found problems and spoke about them on British television. In an email to GMWatch (dated 10 August 2008) on the tenth anniversary of his 15 seconds of TV fame, he wrote of GM food safety and the EFSA's GMO Panel:
- On this anniversary I have to admit that, unfortunately, not much has changed since 1998. In one of the few sentences I said in my broadcast ten years ago, I asked for a credible GM testing protocol to be established that would be acceptable to the majority of scientists and to people in general. 10 years on we still haven't got one. Instead, in Europe we have an unelected EFSA GMO Panel with no clear responsibility to European consumers, which invariably underwrites the safety of whatever product the GM biotech industry is pushing onto us.
Monsanto's GM maize in EU
In 2004, EFSA approved feed and food use of Monsanto's GM Roundup-ready maize NK603 in 2004, and its cultivation in the EU in 2009.
French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini's study on rats being fed with NK603 showed that the rats tested with Roundup died earlier than their control group, developing severe tumours and kidney and liver pathologies. The rats only fed with the GM maize also developed tumours. EFSA is criticized for having based its assessment on a narrow range of studies that tested rats for a short period of only 90 days. Séralini pointed out that in his research most of the tumours among the rats he studied only appeared after the first year.
According to CEO, more than half of the GMO panel experts who signed the approval for this GM maize had links with industry resulting in conflicts of interest, as defined by the OECD.[4]
GMO Panel members
- Joe Perry, Chair
- Patrick du Jardin, Vice-chair
- Gijs Kleter, Vice-chair
- Salvatore Arpaia
- Andrew Nicholas Edmund Birch
- Andrew Chesson
- Achim Gathmann
- Jürgen Gropp
- Lieve Herman
- Hilde-Gunn Hoen-Sorteberg
- Huw Jones
- Jozsef Kiss
- Pagona Lagiou
- Martinus Lovik
- Antoine Messéan
- Hanspeter Naegeli
- Kaare M. Nielsen
- Jaroslava Ovesna
- Nils Rostoks
- Christoph Tebbe[5]
Former GMO Panel members
Harry Kuiper (Chair), Sirpa Kärenlampi (Vice-Chair), Hans Christer Andersson, Detlef Bartsch, Josep Casacuberta, Howard Davies, Gerhard Flachowsky, Annette Poeting, Jeremy Sweet, Atte Johannes von Wright, Jean-Michel Wal
Conflicts of interest on EFSA's management board
In March 2011 Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) highlighted in a report that at least four members of EFSA’s management board are employed by or otherwise linked with food industry lobby groups and other commercial interests, a situation that creates conflicts of interest. These board members are: Matthias Horst (director general of the German food industry lobby BVE), Milan Kováč (director of International Life Sciences Institute Europe), Jiří Ruprich (Danone Institute) and Piet Vanthemsche (farmers’ lobby COPA and Agri Investment Fund).[6][7]
Resignation of Diána Bánáti
Diána Bánáti was appointed member of the EFSA Management Board in June 2006, re-appointed for a second term in 2010 with a 4-year mandate, and elected Chair of the Management Board in October 2010.[8] She resigned from EFSA on 08 May 2012 by Diána Bánáti of her decision to take up a professional position at the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), a body which acts on behalf of numerous food and biotech multinationals, including Danone, Kraft Foods, Monsanto, Nestle and Procter & Gamble.[9]
A report by the parliament's budget committee, issued before Ms Banati's resignation, raised questions about her links with ILSI, going back to 2010, that said she had "failed, in 2010, to declare her membership of the Board of Directors of the ILSI". It called the EFSA board's scrutiny of its members' declarations of interest "insufficiently rigorous and detailed".[10]
The EFSA insisted that Hungarian Professor Bánáti has had no influence or control over the organisation’s decision on food or crop safety issues. EFSA has been criticised to have allowed her remain in her EFSA position for so long, despite the fact that it has been known for a long time that she had connections to the GM industry and the wider food industry through ILSI.
Green MEP José Bové stated that the conflict of interest in her role with ILSI made her position as EFSA chair completely "inappropriate and untenable".[11]
ILSI denies being an industry lobbying body. It describes itself as a "non-profit, worldwide organisation whose mission is to provide science that improves public health and well-being."[12]
Management Board members
- Sue Davies (Vice-Chair)
- Piergiuseppe Facelli (Vice-Chair)
- Valérie Baduel
- Manuel Barreto Dias
- Marianne Elvander
- Jaana Husu-Kallio
- Milan Kováč
- Stella Michaelidou-Canna
- Jan Mousing
- Radu Roatiş Cheţan
- Jiří Ruprich
- Pieter Vanthemsche
- Tadeusz M. Wijaszka
- Paola Testori Coggi
- Ladislav Miko[13]
Affiliations
Funding
Contact
- Address:
- European Food Safety Authority
- Largo N. Palli 5/A
- 43121 Parma
- ITALY
- Phone:
- +39 0521 036111
- Fax:
- +39 0521 036110
- Website:
- http://www.efsa.europa.eu/
Resources
- Corporate Europe Observatory, "Serial conflicts of interest on EFSA’s management board," 23 February 2011, accessed 16 Mar 2011.
- Corporate Europe Observatory, "Study on Monsanto's GM maize intensifies concerns about EFSA's reliability – Monsanto strikes back with PR offensive," 21 September 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- Earth Open Source, "Europe's Pesticide and Food Safety Regulators - Who Do They Work For?" April 2011, accessed 04 October 2012.
- EFSA, Response to Earth Open Source report, Europe's Pesticide and Food Safety Regulators - Who Do They Work For? 14 April 2011, accessed 04 October 2012.
- Earth Open Source, Reply to letter from Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, executive director of EFSA, regarding our report: Europe’s pesticide and food safety regulators: Who do they work for? 20 April 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- SETAC, Response to Earth Open Source report, Europe's Pesticide and Food Safety Regulators - Who Do They Work For? 28 April 2011, accessed 04 October 2012.
- EFSA, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), EFSA website, accessed 02 July 2009.
- EFSA, FAQ on the resignation of Diana Banati as member and Chair of EFSA´s Management Board, accessed 04 October 2012.
- EFSA, Management Board members], accessed 04 October 2012.
- EFSA, Members of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), accessed 04 October 2012.
- EurActiv, "Commission hesitant to approve more GM crops," 08 May 2008, accessed 02 July 2009.
- FoEE, "EFSA back in bed with GMO industry: MON810 opinion shown to Monsanto but not to public," Friends of the Earth Press Release, 30 June 2009, accessed 02 July 2009.
- Peter, Laurence, "Euro MPs criticise managers of EU agencies," BBC News 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- Poulter, Sean, "EU watchdog forced out over links to 'Frankenstein food' firms," Mail Online 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- TestBiotech, "EFSA: a playing field for biotech industry," 19 November 2010, accessed 04 October 2012.
Notes
- ↑ EFSA, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), EFSA website, accessed 02 July 2009.
- ↑ EurActiv, "Commission hesitant to approve more GM crops," 08 May 2008, accessed 02 July 2009.
- ↑ FoEE, "EFSA back in bed with GMO industry: MON810 opinion shown to Monsanto but not to public," Friends of the Earth Press Release, 30 June 2009, accessed 02 July 2009.
- ↑ Corporate Europe Observatory, "Study on Monsanto's GM maize intensifies concerns about EFSA's reliability – Monsanto strikes back with PR offensive," 21 September 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- ↑ EFSA, Members of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), accessed 04 October 2012.
- ↑ Corporate Europe Observatory, "Serial conflicts of interest on EFSA’s management board," 23 February 2011, accessed 16 Mar 2011. (Focuses on links with the food and feed industry.)
- ↑ Corporate Europe Observatory, "Exposed: conflicts of interest among EFSA’s experts on food additives," 15 June 2011, accessed 04 October 2012. (Focuses on links with companies that make food additives.)
- ↑ EFSA, FAQ on the resignation of Diana Banati as member and Chair of EFSA´s Management Board, accessed 04 October 2012.
- ↑ Peter, Laurence, "Euro MPs criticise managers of EU agencies," BBC News 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Poulter, Sean, "EU watchdog forced out over links to 'Frankenstein food' firms," Mail Online 10 May 2012, accessed 04 October 2012.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ EFSA, Management Board members], accessed 04 October 2012.
