The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment
VKM carries out risk assessments for the Norwegian Food Safety Authority and the Norwegian Environment Agency.
Latest reports
Biodiversity
Litterature review: How to assess interactions between non-native species
Key message: Risk assessments should to a greater extent account for how multiple non-native species interact with each other and the cumulative impacts they have on the ecosystems they establish themselves in. Such cumulative effects may alter ecosystems more rapidly and profoundly than what becomes evident when species are assessed individually.
Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids, Materials in Contact with Food, and Cosmetics
Risk assessment of nitrate, nitrite and nitrosamines
Key message: The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (VKM) has assessed whether exposure to nitrate, nitrite and nitrosamines in food may pose a health risk to the Norwegian population.
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Video in the English language illustrate how organisations that work with scientific research can cooperate with EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority.
VKM participates in the European partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals (PARC)
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VKM leads the Collaboration to Harmonise the Assessment of Next Generation Evidence (CHANGE).