27/04/2018 (Agence Europe) – MEPs on the European Parliament’s environment committee are still reticent about the amendment to EU general food law proposed by the Commission to improve the transparency, quality and independence of scientific assessments of substances such as pesticides (see EUROPE 11999). In a first debate on Thursday 26 April, they called for the confidentiality of company data not to become a new obstacle. “All matters related to safety should be transparent....