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European Food Safety Authority

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Question for Department of Health

UIN 70446, tabled on 13 April 2017

Question

Calum Kerr
Scottish National Party
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with representatives of the European Food Safety Authority on its future remit in the UK.

Answer

David Mowat
Conservative
Warrington South
Commons

Answered on

20 April 2017

The Government has not yet had any discussions with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on its future remit in the United Kingdom. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Food Standard Agency and other Government Departments/bodies currently work with the EFSA on a range of issues including public health, food safety, plant and animal health and welfare. Government departments are working together to ensure that we will continue to have a collaborative relationship with the EFSA post-exit and that UK risk management decisions will continue to be based on robust scientific evidence.

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