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The paper provides a summary of the report written for the European Parliam
ent's Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Programme, as a resp
onse to the Commission's 2000 Food Safety White Paper. The White Paper made
a series of major proposals, including a plan to set up a new European Foo
d Authority (EFA). This paper summarises the comments and proposals on the
background and technical arguments in the White Paper. The key issues in fo
od-related public health, which the EFA will have to address, are reviewed.
The role of science and technological information in policy-making on food
and health matters is explored, as is the core challenge of how to link nu
trition and food safety to give a consumer-friendly public health policy fo
r Europe. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.