EFSA boosts public access to data

EFSA has opened up to the public statistics of data on chemical contaminants and food consumption, which are used in its risk assessments. These statistics are accessible from EFSA’s new data warehouse.

“This is the latest important step towards improving accessibility to data collected by EFSA – one of the Authority’s main strategic challenges,” said Mary Gilsenan, Head of EFSA’s Evidence Management Unit.

EFSA is making available statistics for different countries on the reported frequency of contaminants in food and feed, and on food consumption for different age groups (such as means and percentiles). 

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