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European Food Industry advocates for non-animal safety assessment approaches

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A FoodDrinkEurope working group featuring several SERS scientists have published a state-of-the-science paper calling for regulatory adoption of non-animal New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) approaches.

Adam Wood presenting a FoodDrinkEurope poster at the 2025 US Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting in Florida

SERS experts Adam Wood, Paul Hepburn, and Ans Punt have co-authored a new FoodDrinkEurope publication (Opens in a pop-up window ) on opportunities to maximise regulatory use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) in Food Safety Assessment. This publication makes several suggestions to further develop these NAMs and to modernise regulatory requirements to enhance their use in food safety assessments. These could be implemented as part of the European Commission Roadmap currently being developed to phase out animal testing for chemical safety assessment and aligns with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) strategy to transition to NGRA approaches in the long-term.

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  1. Poster of this work presented by Adam at the 2025, annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting in Orlando, Florida.
    Countdown to 2027: maximising NAMs in food safety assessment: closing the gap for regulatory assessments in Europe (PDF 949.27 KB)
  2. FoodDrinkEurope’s 2023 position paper on the integration of new approach methodologies in food safety risk assessment
    Joint position: Integration of New Approach Methodologies in food safety risk assessment - FoodDrinkEurope : FoodDrinkEurope (Opens in a pop-up window )
  3. Link to open-access publication
    Countdown to 2027 – maximising use of NAMs in food safety assessment: closing the gap for regulatory assessments in Europe (Opens in a pop-up window )
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