Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of micro-organisms (such as bacteria) to become increasingly resistant to an antimicrobial to which they were previously susceptible - when germs like bacteria and fungi defeat the drugs designed to kill them. Although AMR is a naturally occurring...

The Commission is currently performing an assessment of the animal welfare, economic, social and environmental impacts of envisaged changes, based on a very extensive consultation process and supported by a series of external studies. This assessment includes the goal to propose the phasing out...

According to EU Regulation 1935/20041, food contact materials (FCM) are all materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, already in contact with food or likely to transfer their constituents into food under foreseeable conditions of use. EU legislation considers as food...