Addressing the special PEST committee of the European Parliament chaired by Éric Andrieu (S&D), the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, defended the risk assessment and authorisation procedure for pesticides in the EU, whilst placing a great deal of hope in the cooperation of Parliament and the Council to approve the proposed revision of the general law on European food now on the table by the end of the legislative period, to improve the transparency and...