Federica Barrucci

TL;DR: The Panel concluded that an increased methaemoglobin level, observed in human and animals, was a relevant effect for the derivation of the ADI and estimated the MoE to exogenous nitrosamines in meat products to be < 10,000 in all age groups at high level exposure.

TL;DR: The Panel concluded that currently there was insufficient evidence to withdraw this ADI and that even using the highest nitrate‐to‐nitrite conversion factor the methaemoglobin levels produced due to nitrite obtained from this conversion would not be clinically significant and would result to a theoretically estimated endogenous N‐nitroso compounds (ENOC) production at levels which would be of low concern.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported that no human infections due to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N8) or A(5N6) viruses - detected in wild birds and poultry outbreaks in Europe - have been reported so far and the risk of zoonotic transmission to the general public in Europe is considered very low.

TL;DR: The LDA topic model can be used to process rapidly information in the media, support the definition of more specific food fraud filters on EMM/MEDISYS and be of direct use for all stakeholders involved in the monitoring, assessment and management of food frauds.

TL;DR: A delay in meat inspection of 24 or 72 h is expected to have no impact on the effectiveness of detection of persistent organic pollutants and metals, however, there will be a reduced effectiveness to detect some of these substances due to potential degradation in the available matrices and the non‐availability of specific preferred matrices of choice.