EFSA has taken a major step towards becoming a fully open data organisation by committing to publish the scientific data it uses for EU-wide monitoring programmes and surveys and many of its risk assessments.
In a recently published report, EFSA lays out how it intends to share data collected in areas such as: food consumption habits; pesticide residues in food; chemical contaminants and additives in food; foodborne disease outbreaks; and antimicrobial resistance.
The data will be made available on Knowledge Junction, EFSA's curated, open repository, which was set up to improve transparency, reproducibility and reusability of evidence in food and feed safety risk assessments. The first datasets will be published this year.
Knowledge Junction is a community on the Zenodo platform and can be accessed by anyone with a web browser.
As well as being in line with one of EFSA's key strategic objectives - to widen its evidence base and maximise access to its data - the move is part of wider EU efforts to promote public access to data and information.
The report was drafted by EFSA data specialists in close consultation with experts and authorities from EU Member States.
It includes a review of the measures that individual countries are taking to provide public access to government data. Food and feed safety organisations are taking different approaches, but the availability of food safety data is increasing year by year.
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