This document, which focuses on the safety assessment for human and animal health, underwent a three-month public consultation and takes into account all comments received. It covers areas such as novel foods, food contact materials, food and feed additives, and pesticides and is intended for all interested parties – in particular risk assessors, risk managers and applicants.

“This guidance is very timely because it gives applicants the tools they need to prepare complete nanotechnology applications and equips risk assessors such as EFSA with the appropriate tools to evaluate their safety," stated Reinhilde Schoonjans, a risk assessment scientist at EFSA.

This document, which focuses on the safety assessment for human and animal health, underwent a three-month public consultation and takes into account all comments received.

It covers areas such as novel foods, food contact materials, food and feed additives, and pesticides and is intended for all interested parties – in particular risk assessors, risk managers and applicants.

The guidance will now enter a pilot phase and is scheduled to be finalized by the end of 2019.

A second guidance will be developed in 2019 focusing on environmental risk assessment of nanoscience and nanotechnology applications in the food and feed chain.

Click here to read the Guidance