Members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee voted affirmatively by a comfortable majority (43 votes in favour, 16 against, 1 abstention) on Tuesday 27 November on the legislative proposal to increase the transparency of scientific risk assessments of substances such as pesticides or GMOs in the EU throughout the food chain.
This proposal revising the general EU food law that established the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in 2002 was presented by the Commission in...