Science Council 2024 meetings

Open Meetings and Project Workshops

‘Key research questions for the future of food safety’ workshop on 15 March 2024. 

Science Council supported an FSA workshop with external experts across a range of disciplines to shortlist 50 key questions on food safety (from 262 submissions) relevant to the FSA’s remit.  The shortlisted questions informed the FSA’s Areas of Research Interest formulation in 2024 and future Science Council work. A review of the workshop will be published next year. 

‘Wider impacts beyond food safety risk assessment’ project workshop on 22 April 2024.

This project was commissioned to advise on the practicalities of including impacts outside food safety in FSA decisions.  This workshop brought together external experts across a range of disciplines to review exemplar case studies of a range of possible novel foods/processes, establish the key wider impacts, what information is needed to assess these and where collaboration would be needed with other Government Departments on impacts of joint interest. The final report of this project was published, along with its recommendations, in November 2024 on the Science Council website.