[Public comment] Draft scientific opinion on the risks to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food

February 24, 2020

Deadline: 20 April 2020

"EFSA's Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) has launched an open consultation on the draft scientific opinion on the risks to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food. This document presents estimations of human dietary exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and an assessment of human health risks related to dietary exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances.

Interested parties are invited to submit written comments by 20 April 2020.

Please use the electronic template provided: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Public_consultation_PFAS to submit comments and refer to the line and page numbers. To submit additional data to support your comments or files, there is an upload function available in the tool (for a maximum size of 1Mb file).
Otherwise you can also contact specific unit’s functional mailbox: [email protected]

Please note that comments will not be considered if they:

are submitted after the closing date of the consultation
are presented in any form other than what is provided for in the instructions and template
are not related to the contents of the document
contain complaints against institutions, personal accusations, irrelevant or offensive statements or material
are related to policy or risk management aspects, which are out of the scope of EFSA's activity.

EFSA will assess all comments which are submitted in line with the criteria above. The comments will be further considered by the relevant EFSA Panel and taken into consideration if found to be relevant. Due to time constraints, EFSA cannot use additional occurrence data submitted during the public consultation for the dietary exposure assessment in this risk assessment. However, occurrence data submitted in SSD format will be stored and used for future risk assessments.

Copyright-cleared contributions

Persons or organizations participating in a Public Consultation of EFSA are responsible for ensuring that they hold all the rights necessary for their submissions and consequent publication by EFSA. Comments should inter alia be copyright cleared by taking into account EFSA’s transparency policy and practice to publish all submissions. In case the submission reproduces third-party content in the form of charts, graphs or images, the required prior permissions of the right holder(s) should have been obtained by the PC respondent

Publication of contributions

Contributions will be published (as part of an EFSA report published together with the final opinion) and may be re-used by EFSA in a different context. It should be noted that contributions submitted by individuals in a personal capacity will be published as such, indicating the author’s first and family name, unless a substantial justification for protection is provided by the respondent. Contributions submitted on behalf of an organization are also made publicly available and attributed to the organization in question.

Submit comments (deadline: 20 April 2020)"

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