Le sostanze con attività endocrina presenti nei mangimi possono costituire un rischio diretto per la salute degli animali, un fattore importante di esposizione dei consumatori, particolarmente per fasce vulnerabili come l’infanzia, nonché di esposizione ambientale attraverso i reflui zootecnici. Si tratta, pertanto, di un problema di rilievo nel nuovo approccio 'One Health' che integra qualità ambientale, salute animale, sicurezza dei prodotti alimentari e salute umana.
Nell’ambito dell’European Food Safety Authority il problema è considerato da due panel:
- Panel on contaminants in the food chain (CONTAM) per le sostanze indesiderate, in gran parte di origine ambientale, quali contaminanti persistenti e micotossine.
- Panel on additives and products or substances used in animal feed (FEEDAP) per le sostanze aggiunte intenzionalmente nei mangimi per i loro effetti zootecnici o nutrizionali, ma di cui vanno valutati i rischi in rapporto ai benefici, quali ad esempio taluni elementi in traccia.
• Opinion of the FEEDAP Panel on Safety and efficacy of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol as a feed additive for poultry and pigs. Adopted on 05/02/2009.
• Advice of the Scientific Panel CONTAM related to relevant chemical compounds in the group of brominated flame retardants for monitoring in feed and food
• FEEDAP Opinion on Safety and efficacy of chromium methionine (Availa®Cr) as feed additive for all species
• Opinion of the FEEDAP Panel on the evaluation of safety and efficacy of “Hy•D” (calcifediol), based on 25-hydroxylcholecalciferol/25-hydroxy-pre-cholecalciferol, as feed additive in accordance with Council Directive 70/524/EEC.
• Opinion Of The Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on a request from the Commission related to camphechlor as undesirable substance in animal feed
• Scientific Opinion on the safety of hemp (Cannabis genus) for use as animal feed
• Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on chlordane as undesirable substance in animal feed
• Scientific Opinion on the safety and efficacy of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) as a feed additive
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel CONTAM related to DDT as an undesirable substance in animal feed
• Results of the monitoring of dioxin levels in food and feed
• Opinion by the Panel CONTAM on the risk to public health related to the presence of high levels of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in liver from sheep and deer
• Opinion of the CONTAM Panel related to Endosulfan as undesirable substance in animal feed
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on a request from the Commission related to gamma-hch and other hexachlorocyclohexanes as undesirable substances in animal feed
• Opinion Of The Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on Glucosinolates as undesirable substances in animal feed - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel CONTAM related heptachlor as an undesirable substance in animal feed
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on a request from the Commission related to hexachlorobenzene as undesirable substance in animal feed
• Opinion of the FEEDAP Panel on the use of iodine in feedingstuffs
• Scientific Opinion on the safety and efficacy of iodine compounds (E2) as feed additives for all species: calcium iodate anhydrous and potassium iodide
• Review of mycotoxin-detoxifying agents used as feed additives: mode of action, efficacy and feed/food safety
• Results of the monitoring of non dioxin-like PCBs in food and feed
• Opinion of the CONTAM panel related to the presence of non dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in feed and food
• Safety evaluation of ractopamine
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on the safety and efficacy of the product Selenium enriched yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCYC R397) as a feed additive for all species in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003
• Scientific Opinion by the Panel FEEDAP on Safety and efficacy of Sel-Plex® (organic form of selenium produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060) for all species.
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on the safety and efficacy of the product Sel-Plex 2000 as a feed additive according to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel FEEDAP on Safety and efficacy of SELSAF (Selenium enriched yeast from Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3399) as feed additive for all species. Adopted on 05/03/2009. (Question No EFSA-Q-2008-381)
• Opinion of the Panel on additives and products or substances used in animal feed (FEEDAP) on the Consequences for the consumer of the use of vitamin A in animal nutrition
• Scientific Opinion on the safety and efficacy of vitamin A (retinyl acetate, retinyl palmitate and retinyl propionate) as a feed additive for all animal species and categories
• Opinion of the CONTAM Panel related to the safety assessment of wild and farmed fish
• Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain on a request from the Commission related to Zearalenone as undesirable substance in animal feed
