COC input to COT work

Participation at COT workshop “Evolving Our Assessment & Future Guiding Principles Workshop”

3.14    Some COC members were invited to participate in the COT workshop described in section 1.194, and a presentation was given jointly by the COC and COM Secretariat on the guidance statements from these Committees.

3.15    A report of this workshop is anticipated to be published in 2024.

Public consultation on EFSA’S 2023 re-evaluation of the risk to public health from inorganic arsenic in food

3.16    COC members provided input by correspondence to the COT response to the public consultation described in section 1.73 above.

3.17    COC members commented on EFSA’s approach with respect to extrapolation of country-specific data to an international perspective, the response rate chosen for the benchmark dose modelling, and the justification for not providing a steer on a margin of exposure of low concern due to lack of precedent with use of human data.