Scientific Steering Committee

Citation

Stephen Fallows, D. (2000), "Scientific Steering Committee", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 30 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/nfs.2000.01730fag.005

Scientific Steering Committee

Scientific Steering Committee

Since the earlier articles were prepared, the Scientific Steering Committee has met on five occasions as follows:

1. 1.

   9-10 December 1999;

2. 2.

   20-21 January 2000;

3. 3.

   13-14 April 2000;

4. 4.

   25-26 May 2000; and

5. 5.

   6-7 July 2000.

A further meeting (on 14-15 September 2000) will have taken place by the time this article is published.

The agenda for each of these meetings can be accessed at the following URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ssc/agenda_en.html

Following the revision of the Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General Web site, there is an easy route to a list of the outcomes of the discussions of this Committee. Use the following URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ssc/outcome_en.html

Use of the above URL leads to a listing of, and with hot links to, the full texts of opinions reached by the Committee. The following is a selected list of some of the opinions:

• •

  final opinion on the geographical risk of BSE (July 2000);

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  integrated comment and remarks on the White Paper on food safety (see above);

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  on the decision of the UK government to lift the ban on consumption of beef on the bone (April 2000); and

• •

  on the human exposure risk via food with respect to BSE (December 1999).