2025-05 OPEN LETTER ON THE NEED FOR A HIGH-PERFORMING EFSA TO BOOST THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE EU AGRI-FOOD SECTOR

EU Specialty Food Ingredients has co-signed an Open Letter of Business and Food Industry stakeholders on the need for a high-performing EFSA to boost the competitiveness of the EU agri-food sector. The joint letter underlines the main horizontal challenges faced by industry stakeholders at the risk assessment level and proposes solutions for more efficient and science-based processes. Bearing in mind that efficient and operational risk assessment processes are crucial to support the uptake of innovation and the acceleration to more resilient and sustainable food and feed production, the signatory organisations call on the European Commission and EFSA to speed up the delivery of EFSA’s performance evaluation and to give full consideration to the challenges highlighted in this letter.

The Open Letter can be downloaded here.