Updated list of QPS-recommended microorganisms for safety risk assessments carried out by EFSA Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
EFSA BIOHAZ Panel, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Ana Allende, Avelino Alvarez-Ordonez, Declan Bolton, Sara Bover-Cid, Marianne Chemaly, Alessandra De Cesare, Friederike Hilbert, Roland Lindqvist, Maarten Nauta, Luisa Peixe, Giuseppe Ru, Marion Simmons, Panagiotis Skandamis, Elisabetta Suffredini, PS Cocconcelli, No name available, Miguel Prieto Maradona, Amparo Querol, Lolke Sijtsma, No name available, Ingvar Sundh, J Vlak, Fulvio Barizzone, S Correia, Lieve Herman
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) asked the Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) to deliver a scientific Opinion on the maintenance of the list of qualified presumption of safety (QPS) biological agents. The QPS approach was developed by the EFSA Scientific Committee to provide a harmonised generic pre-evaluation to support safety risk assessments of biological agents intentionally introduced into the food and feed chain, in support of the concerned scientific Panels and Units in the frame of market authorisations. The taxonomic identity, body of knowledge, the safety concerns in ...