Parma / IT. (efsa) The European Commission asked EFSA on 28 April to provide scientific advice on the sunflower oil contamination with mineral oil from the Ukraine that was dispatched to several European Union countries, notified through the European alert system. EFSA´s in-house experts were asked to look at the preliminary data available in order to provide scientific support to risk managers on this issue. EFSA has not made a risk assessment, as there is little data available at the moment. EFSA has provided technical support to the Commission by identifying different exposure scenarios, depending on the type of oils concerned. When new data becomes available, if necessary, EFSA will provide further technical support to the Commission.
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