Daniele Court Marques

TL;DR: This updated guidance does not call for a general re‐evaluation of previous assessments where the NOAEL approach or the BMD approach as described in the 2009 SC guidance was used, in particular when the exposure is clearly smaller than the health‐based guidance value.

TL;DR: This guidance has been developed to assist notifiers, users of test facilities and Member State authorities on critical aspects related to the setting of dermal absorption values to be used in risk assessments of active substances in Plant Protection Products (PPPs).

TL;DR: A decision tree approach is proposed that enables a risk assessment of substances present in food intended for infants below 16 weeks of age and the approach to be taken for the risk assessment are on a case‐by‐case basis, depending on whether the substance is added intentionally to food and is systemically available.

TL;DR: The peer review provided conclusions on whether exposure of humans to thiacloprid can be considered negligible, taking into account the European Commission's draft guidance on this topic.

TL;DR: The conclusions were reached on the basis of the evaluation of the representative uses of copper compounds as a fungicide on grapes, tomatoes and cucurbits, and missing information identified as being required by the regulatory framework was listed.