Cross-border risk assessment

On 7 December 2010, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the French Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses) and the Food Institute of the Danish Tekniske Universitet (DTU) signed a cooperation agreement.

The goal of this German-French-Danish cooperation is to further strengthen and increase the effectiveness of joint activities in the field of food safety at European level as well. "We would like to establish a strong network of risk assessment experts in our institutions to ensure the rapid exchange of scientific findings in Europe," said BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel at the signing ceremony of the agreement in Copenhagen, " we rely on the competency and excellence of our colleagues, particularly in the event of a food crisis."

The German BfR, the French Anses and the Danish DTU have similar tasks and implement comparable concepts in the field of scientific risk assessment on the basis of active research work. Cooperation within a joint structural framework to avoid the duplication of work is therefore an obvious solution.Über das Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung.

About the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

BfR is a scientific institution within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. It advises the federal government and the Länder on questions of food, chemical and product safety. BfR engages in research on topics that are closely linked to its assessment tasks.