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The European Food Safety Authority ("EFSA") Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies recently published a scientific opinion on the safety of caffeine.

Risk assessors and risk managers will now discuss how to make best use of these common frameworks.

The European Food Safety Authority ("EFSA") has completed its reevaluation of all food colors permitted for use in the European Union before 2009.

The European Medicines Agency ("EMA") has published its 2014 Annual Report.

EMA has published a final report on the experience gained during its pilot project on adaptive pathways, a product development concept for medicines that address patients' unmet medical needs.

The opinion adopted by the EMA's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ("CHMP") will now be sent to the European Commission for the adoption of a decision on EU-wide marketing authorization.

The consultation is open until February 6, 2016 and stakeholders are invited to submit their comments using the template provided.

Discussions with Member States and experts are ongoing, and the final criteria are expected to enter into force in 2017.

On November 17, 2014, certain health claims relating to children's development and health were rejected by Commission Regulation No 1229/2014 of 17 November 2014.

On October 26, 2015, the European Medicines Agency ("EMA") launched a public consultation on the key features of its new priority medicines ("PRIME") scheme.

On April 15, 2016, Member State experts endorsed emergency measures proposed by the Commission with stricter requirements for the importation of citrus fruits from Brazil, South Africa, and Uruguay.

On August 7, 2015, the European Parliament ("EP") voted on the proposal of two European Commission ("EC") directives aimed to (i) provisionally ban the cloning of farm animals.

A mandate for the Commission to assess the need for such legislative proposals is provided in Regulation 1169/2011.

On December 16, 2015, the European Parliament ("EP") objected to the EU Commission's authorization for use of glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified ("GM") maize NK603xT25 in food and feed.

On July 15, 2015, Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") debated a European Commission proposal that would enable any Member State to restrict or prohibit EU-approved GMO food or feed on its territory.

The European Parliament approved legislation to allow individual member states the right to restrict or ban the cultivation of bioengineered crops within their own borders, even if their cultivation is permitted at the EU level.

On June 1, 2016, EMA announced the outcome of the assessment of the first batch of applications received from medicine developers for its PRIME (PRIority MEdicines) scheme...