About

Overview:

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is 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.

Downloading

Register of questions available through search interface at:

• http://registerofquestions.efsa.europa.eu/roqFrontend/questionsListLoader?panel=ALL

This includes options to bulk download questions in CSV or TXT formats.

Fields include:

• MANDATE
• QUESTIONNUMBER
• OUTPUT
• OUTPUTTYPE
• STATUS
• PANEL
• APPLICANT
• RECEPTIONDATE
• DEADLINE
• TYPEOFDEADLINE
• SUBJECT
• SUBAREA
• PETITIONER
• ACCEPTANCEDATE
• ADOPTIONDATE
• PUBLISHINGDATE
• COMMENT
• LASTUPDATED
• FOODSECTORAREA
• QUESTIONTYPE

'Outputs' available via web interface at:

• http://registerofquestions.efsa.europa.eu/roqFrontend/ListOfOutputs

Mandates available at:

• http://registerofquestions.efsa.europa.eu/roqFrontend/ListOfMandates

Other reports and publications are available at:

• http://efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_ScientificOpinionPublicationReport.htm

Openness

Linking policy document contains several notes which indicate the material is not open.

For example, the material cannot be used for commercial purposes:

Reproduce, reuse or redistribute any part of the content of the site for any commercial purpose whatsoever, or distribute to a third party for such purposes;

There are also requirements about making sure material is up to date:

You must undertake that data that is downloaded from the EFSA website and in any way displayed or utilised is regularly checked and updated using the most recent data from the EFSA website.