The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment for food and feed safety. In collaboration with national authorities and in consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and information about existing and emerging risks. Assessing biological risks at the human-animal interface is becoming ever more challenging be...

In May 2016, the Food and Drug Administration extended its tobacco regulatory authorities to other products meeting the definition of a tobacco product (Deeming Rule). This authority now includes, but is not limited to, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as electronic cigarettes, as well as all cigars, pipes, and hookahs (waterpipes). The FDA's Center for Tobacco Products has bee...

The number of works made freely accessible on the Web by institutions joined to Open Archive Initiatives such as libraries, research institutions, scientific and cultural archives, is constantly growing. Until now some international agreements among key players of Open Access approach have been established but the low level of standardization and the lack of a digital resource and repository ce...

Sir,?I am writing to express my delight on seeing that, -with Dr. Daver'a article in the May 1947 issue, the I.M.G. has taken up the cause of groundnut cake flour for human consumption. I consider this a matter of greatest national importance and hope that you will continue to champion this cause with the full weight of the scientific authority of which the I.M.G. is a mouthpiece. Though I have...

Decision-making on animal welfare issues requires a synthesis of information. For the assessment of farm animal welfare based on scientific information collected in a database, a methodology called 'semantic modelling' has been developed. To date, however, this methodology has not been generally applied. Recently, a qualitative Risk Assessment approach has been published by the European Food Sa...

In contrast to increasing debates on China's rising status as a global scientific power, issues of China's science communication remain under-explored. Based on 21 in-depth interviews in three cities, this article examines Chinese scientists' accounts of the entangled web of influence which conditions the process of how scientific knowledge achieves (or fails to achieve) its civic authority. A ...

Existing scholarship on the debates over expertise in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has demonstrated the importance of popular writings on the sciences to definitions of scientific authority. Yet while men of science might position themselves in opposition to the stereotype of the merely popular writer, the self-identity of the popular writer remained ambiguous. This essay examines the careers...

This paper focuses on the way in which people deploy scientific knowledge alongside other resources in everyday interactions. In the UK headlice are common amongst schoolchildren, and treatment is viewed as a parental responsibility. Choice between treatment options lies with individual parents, with official guidance giving no clear steer. In the face of this combination of responsibility and ...

The Supreme Court's 1993 decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., holding that the admissibility of scientific evidence depends on its scientific merit, has made American law receptive to valid science to an unprecedented degree. We review the implications for psychology of the law's taking science seriously. We consider the law before Daubert, and the ways that Daubert as well...